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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 4/25/2007, you wrote:
> One of my reads this morning mused about the fact that oranges were
> once a treat found in upper Midwest Christmas stockings. Changing our
> mindset is perhaps the biggest challenge to eating locally-grown foods.

And that was the result of cheap energy for transportation.  Pacific Fruit 
Express was a joint venture by SP and UP that pioneered the use of iced 
railroad cars to carry perishables from California farms.  This was made 
possible by the use of cheap oil and coal to drive large Ammonia based 
freezing systems to make ice.  Ice houses were located all over the country 
to keep the cars cold.

The first demonstrations were mid winter special trains to Iowa where the 
roads hoped to attract farmers to move to California where they would farm 
year around to provide produce to be shipped east by PFE over SP and UP 
tracks.  It worked and there are still several Iowa clubs in Southern 
California.  That is what brought my grand father's family here from 
Missouri, just a few miles south of Iowa.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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FDA considers redefining choloate:
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/04/23/2333201.shtml


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I just checked that out and my first effort find my
100 mile place me in central Minnisota instead of Mo.
Van Dell


--- "Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/25/07, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Get used to this new word. Slightly different than
> localvore, used by
> > some. Eating food from close to home.
> >
> > Preserving Fossil Fuels and Nearby Farmland by
> Eating Locally
> >
> > By MARIAN BURROS
> > Published: April 25, 2007
> >
> > Here's the website that pertains to the 100 mile
> diet. You can plug in
> your zip code and find your 100 mile radius, more or
> less. Also some other
> tidbits on the site.
>
> http://100milediet.org/
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