Comments on: Look Out, Here Come the Localvores http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/ Working to find the dream life. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:39:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: farmer's market http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/comment-page-1/#comment-379 farmer's market Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:06:45 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/#comment-379 <strong>farmer's market...</strong> I Googled for something completely different, but found your page...and have to say thanks. nice read.... farmer’s market…

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

]]> By: Rene http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Rene Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:34:21 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/#comment-329 Diqui, that is a great story about CR's tomatoes. I felt that way at the supermarket yesterday, when I saw they had melons shipped in from who knows where, and right down the street there are farmers trying to unload theirs. Insane! The bottled water thing is a great point. And if anyone knows about germs and microbes and stuff, it's you, Ms. Scientist! I didn't know that about Aquafina, thanks. I use a Brita, and can vouch for it getting rid of bad tastes, especially like the kind we get at places like where we are now, a campground on seriously rusty/sulfury well water out in the country. Diqui, that is a great story about CR’s tomatoes. I felt that way at the supermarket yesterday, when I saw they had melons shipped in from who knows where, and right down the street there are farmers trying to unload theirs. Insane!

The bottled water thing is a great point. And if anyone knows about germs and microbes and stuff, it’s you, Ms. Scientist! I didn’t know that about Aquafina, thanks. I use a Brita, and can vouch for it getting rid of bad tastes, especially like the kind we get at places like where we are now, a campground on seriously rusty/sulfury well water out in the country.

]]> By: Diqui http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Diqui Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:54:32 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/#comment-325 Hurrah for championing "eat local"! I was thinking about that at CR on Thursday, when the tomatoes available at the salad bar were mealy and pink. It's the end of summer--peak tomato time around here. AND CR owns an organic farm! Why on Earth were the veggie choices at the salad bar so obviously from SYSCO food service?! Here's something else to rant about: bottled water. Some people who drink it claim to want "better" water. Or that the prefer the taste of it to tap water. How many of them stop to consider how many barrels of oil were burned to truck *water* across the state/country? Last month, the Pepsi corporation had to change its label to reveal that <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/27/news/companies/pepsi_coke/" target="_blank" title="aquafina labeled as tap water" rel="nofollow">Aquafina is "TAP WATER"</a>. Others feel that their muicipal water supply isn't as safe as bottled water. While I can't say that is never true, at least there are strict regulations in place for the quality of municipal water supplies. There are shockingly few <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/nbw.asp" target="_blank" title="bottled water regulations" rel="nofollow">regulations governing the purity of bottled water</a>. Lastly (and I can agree with this reason), many people just don't like the taste of tap water, especially the chlorination. Well, chlorination is what kills all the nasty bacteria and inactivates all the viruses that are small enough to get through the filtration process (and bottled water is neither filtered nor chlorinated). It's quite easy to get rid of "that funny taste" in your tap water. Buy a Britta filter water pitcher or install a filter on your tap. Yes, the filters do need to be replaced, but that's still a LOT less waste than the gasoline used to truck water that is of no better quality across great distances. Hurrah for championing “eat local”! I was thinking about that at CR on Thursday, when the tomatoes available at the salad bar were mealy and pink. It’s the end of summer–peak tomato time around here. AND CR owns an organic farm! Why on Earth were the veggie choices at the salad bar so obviously from SYSCO food service?!

Here’s something else to rant about: bottled water. Some people who drink it claim to want “better” water. Or that the prefer the taste of it to tap water. How many of them stop to consider how many barrels of oil were burned to truck *water* across the state/country? Last month, the Pepsi corporation had to change its label to reveal that Aquafina is “TAP WATER”.

Others feel that their muicipal water supply isn’t as safe as bottled water. While I can’t say that is never true, at least there are strict regulations in place for the quality of municipal water supplies. There are shockingly few regulations governing the purity of bottled water.

Lastly (and I can agree with this reason), many people just don’t like the taste of tap water, especially the chlorination. Well, chlorination is what kills all the nasty bacteria and inactivates all the viruses that are small enough to get through the filtration process (and bottled water is neither filtered nor chlorinated). It’s quite easy to get rid of “that funny taste” in your tap water. Buy a Britta filter water pitcher or install a filter on your tap. Yes, the filters do need to be replaced, but that’s still a LOT less waste than the gasoline used to truck water that is of no better quality across great distances.

]]> By: el jefe http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/comment-page-1/#comment-317 el jefe Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:03:45 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/#comment-317 que cosa es "karma? que cosa es “karma?

]]> By: Mike and Cindi http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/comment-page-1/#comment-314 Mike and Cindi Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:29:26 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/#comment-314 excellent piece and resource links..thanks...that statement from Hopp's book will go into my own 'food for thought' quote bank for my signature tag on future correspondence... Mike excellent piece and resource links..thanks…that statement from Hopp’s book will go into my own ‘food for thought’ quote bank for my signature tag on future correspondence…

Mike

]]> By: Brain http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Brain Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:54:55 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/#comment-312 You know Rene, your new adopted philosophy of buy local can be applied to almost everything in our lives. All this usage of buying things on the internet and having hem shipped from here to there all adds to our overal fuel consumption and general traffic problems. As you are traveling through these small towns, isn't it nice to be buying from and supporting the local shops? There is where you get the personal service, the tidbit of gossip, the local flavor of things. By supporting our local economies, we contribute to the overall health of our communities. So whether you are buying your vegetables or meats (butchers have families to support too!) locally, or going to the local hardware store to have a key made instead of Home Depot, or any local commerce. I think it is all good Karma, and we should all buy local, and screw the importers and cross country shippers, and support you rlocal purveyor!! You know Rene, your new adopted philosophy of buy local can be applied to almost everything in our lives. All this usage of buying things on the internet and having hem shipped from here to there all adds to our overal fuel consumption and general traffic problems.

As you are traveling through these small towns, isn’t it nice to be buying from and supporting the local shops? There is where you get the personal service, the tidbit of gossip, the local flavor of things. By supporting our local economies, we contribute to the overall health of our communities.

So whether you are buying your vegetables or meats (butchers have families to support too!) locally, or going to the local hardware store to have a key made instead of Home Depot, or any local commerce. I think it is all good Karma, and we should all buy local, and screw the importers and cross country shippers, and support you rlocal purveyor!!

]]> By: Sara http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/comment-page-1/#comment-311 Sara Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:34:24 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/2007/08/23/look-out-here-come-the-localvores/#comment-311 Great entry! It wasn't until 3 years ago that I grasped the concept of eating seasonally. Or that apples didn't always come from the U.S. Or how far any food traveled...it's all a new thing. It's amazing how far food does travel to get to our plates. Tonight we had supper with my mom at Panera...and the tomatoes were horrible. Unripe. Hard. But it's the middle of prime tomato season here. I know this because the Farmer's Market it overflowing with beautiful, heirloom, organic tomatoes. But Panera, apparently buys them from Sysco while they are still green and passes them off as food. So sad! Great entry! It wasn’t until 3 years ago that I grasped the concept of eating seasonally. Or that apples didn’t always come from the U.S. Or how far any food traveled…it’s all a new thing. It’s amazing how far food does travel to get to our plates. Tonight we had supper with my mom at Panera…and the tomatoes were horrible. Unripe. Hard. But it’s the middle of prime tomato season here. I know this because the Farmer’s Market it overflowing with beautiful, heirloom, organic tomatoes. But Panera, apparently buys them from Sysco while they are still green and passes them off as food. So sad!

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