4 ms·
Well, even with local farmers you do not escape the mass food production industry, really. AFAIK there are hardly any farmers left who do NOT grow their vegetab
by kahawe 15y ago
Well, even with local farmers you do not escape the mass food production industry, really. AFAIK there are hardly any farmers left who do NOT grow their vegetables and fruits with actual, natural seeds but rely on those genetically modified super-seeds from Monsanto and other companies. These do not bear usable seeds, you cannot plant them in the next year. Plus they need all sorts of chemicals and pesticides to grow, still.
> We've been doing it this way for thousands of years
And for the bigger part of those thousands of years, on average we barely made it to the age of 30, let alone 40. It is good if you can trust local folk but it is better to have professional inspections because there is a lot that can still go wrong in farming and your local farmers might just miss or not know about something crucial. Or maybe I am just used too much to the German way of things already.... inspections and checks for everything.
- trotsky 15y agoJust to give you a picture, I get most of my vegetables from a Community Supported Agriculture farm here in the spring and summer. They give me a box of what is available. Onions, peppers, beets, potatoes, cucumbers, fennel, tomatoes, garlic and cilantro have been some of the recent arrivals. Spring had lots of lettuces and spinach, in the future there will be squash. Some are local heirlooms, they certainly aren't from gene hack labs. The jalapenos growing in my garden came from Amish farm stocks in the next county. The pork chops and sausage in my freezer grew up a few miles away. With all that said, I could be at the white house for a state dinner in an hour if they ever asked me. I don't know how possible it is to manage a large global society this way, but it works OK at a micro level. http://www.localharvest.org/csa/ http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
- kahawe 15y agoWow, this is pretty sweet - especially the part where they are still using real seeds! I doubt the majority of farmers are doing this here.
- trotsky 15y agoshowing that there is a demand by going out of your way to track down and buy what you want helps it happen.
- HeyLaughingBoy 15y agoIs Germany really that different? Here in the US I can just go to a farmer's market and get all kinds of heirloom vegetables or just veggies that are hard to find commercially because they don't do well at large scale. Further, there are large farms that only sell tomatoes to supermarkets within a limited radius because that way they can be guaranteed picked when ripe since they don't have to ship cross-country. The demand for tasty fresh food is there and in true capitalist spirit, farmers are rising to the occasion ;-)