Comments on: Time to Throw Big Ag off the “Local” Gravy Train http://www.sustainabletable.org/2009/05/time-to-throw-big-ag-off-the-local-gravy-trai/ Celebrating local sustainable food, educating consumers on food-related issues and working to build community through food. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:42:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sara http://www.sustainabletable.org/2009/05/time-to-throw-big-ag-off-the-local-gravy-trai/comment-page-1/#comment-267190 Sara Sat, 16 May 2009 01:30:19 +0000 http://www.sustainabletable.org/?p=2932#comment-267190 This reminds me of Monsanto's "sustainable agriculture". Let's look on the bright side- imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! :) This reminds me of Monsanto’s “sustainable agriculture”. Let’s look on the bright side- imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! :)

]]> By: Rob Smart http://www.sustainabletable.org/2009/05/time-to-throw-big-ag-off-the-local-gravy-trai/comment-page-1/#comment-267133 Rob Smart Fri, 15 May 2009 01:56:10 +0000 http://www.sustainabletable.org/?p=2932#comment-267133 Thanks for the details behind why Lay's has no business claiming local content. The problem I see is that industrial food companies have very large marketing budgets and sophisticated techniques that can alter consumer perceptions and behaviors. Hopefully, getting the facts out to as many people as possible will help slow them down, if not stop them in their tracks. Cheers, Rob Smart a.k.a., Jambutter on Twitter Thanks for the details behind why Lay’s has no business claiming local content. The problem I see is that industrial food companies have very large marketing budgets and sophisticated techniques that can alter consumer perceptions and behaviors.

Hopefully, getting the facts out to as many people as possible will help slow them down, if not stop them in their tracks.

Cheers,

Rob Smart
a.k.a., Jambutter on Twitter

]]> By: Joe Martin http://www.sustainabletable.org/2009/05/time-to-throw-big-ag-off-the-local-gravy-trai/comment-page-1/#comment-267130 Joe Martin Fri, 15 May 2009 01:25:19 +0000 http://www.sustainabletable.org/?p=2932#comment-267130 I am most concerned about not diverting more land from it's "natural" cover than necessary to provide the amount of food and fiber that 300 million Americans require daily, and also, to use the least amount of imported petroleum to grow and distribute it. I live in Pennsylvania, which means "Penn's Woods", So, if yields in lbs per acre to grow the potatos demanded by chip cusomers are higher in Idaho and Maine than in my county, I'm all for it. Less natural cover disturbed. I don't think that using pickups, SUV's and minivans to go from farm to farmers markets or parade out to CSA'suses less oil per bushel delivered to consumer than shipping in boxcars with a steel wheel on a steel rail from, say Arizona, and trucking to local supermarkets. As for the spuds, they are what their DNA tells them to be. I don't think the size of the farm has any effect, other than lower spoila and higher net yields from "industrial" farms. How I feel about spuds is in the bite, only. I am most concerned about not diverting more land from it’s “natural” cover than necessary to provide the amount of food and fiber that 300 million Americans require daily, and also, to use the least amount of imported petroleum to grow and distribute it. I live in Pennsylvania, which means “Penn’s Woods”,
So, if yields in lbs per acre to grow the potatos demanded by chip cusomers are higher in Idaho and Maine than in my county, I’m all for it. Less natural cover disturbed. I don’t think that using pickups, SUV’s and minivans to go from farm to farmers markets or parade out to CSA’suses less oil per bushel delivered to consumer than shipping in boxcars with a steel wheel on a steel rail from, say Arizona, and trucking to local supermarkets.

As for the spuds, they are what their DNA tells them to be. I don’t think the size of the farm has any effect, other than lower spoila and higher net yields from “industrial”
farms. How I feel about spuds is in the bite, only.

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