| The "green"
movement is picking up steam. Lots of steam as big industrial
agriculture and huge corporate food retailers realize they can make
money producing and selling these items to a public who wants to live
healthier and protect the environment. While we agree with this
premise, we are suspicious of eco-chic. Especially when organic
products are transported from afar. For example the major supplier
for prepackaged leaf salad made all of their product "organic" yet only
labeled it so for certain eco chic stores like Whole Foods, and at your
typical grocery store it was simply sold as prepackaged lettuce.
And nearly all these products are produced in one location in California
and trucked out to the rest of the nation.
The largest supplier of soy milk also seems to have gone completely
organic, yet imports soy beans from Brazil and China. One has to
consider the environmental cost of transporting the raw ingredients to
the US manufacturer. Furthermore, 90% of US soy bean production is
genetically modified coming from one company. The same company
that created and sells Round-Up.
Some coffee shops chose to import organic milk from California, while
we locally source ours which is hormone free. |