Homestead mailing list

["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, if someone can't make a descent sherbert for $12, then I think we 
won't have to worry about him in the gene pool if TSHTF!

Lynda, who routinely makes raspberrry and strawberry sherbert and sorbet for 
WAY less than $12!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>


The article is rather goofy but I am encouraged that 186 comments came
in rather quickly. Reading the comments gives a pretty good indication
of how people are thinking of the subject.
The article and the comments are at:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/do-we-really-need-a-few-billion-locavores/?em&ex=1213243200&en=d86f2193e3a6cb7f&ei=5087%0A

June 9, 2008,  5:46 pm
Do We Really Need a Few Billion Locavores?
By STEPHEN J. DUBNER
We made some ice cream at home last weekend. Someone had given one of
the kids an ice cream maker a while ago and we finally got around to
using it. We decided to make orange sherbet. It took a pretty long
time and it didn’t taste very good but the worst part was how
expensive it was. We spent about $12 on heavy cream, half-and-half,
orange juice, and food coloring — the only ingredient we already had
was sugar — to make a quart of ice cream. For the same price, we could
have bought at least a gallon (four times the amount) of much better
orange sherbet. In the end, we wound up throwing away about three-
quarters of what we made. Which means we spent $12, not counting labor
or electricity or capital costs (somebody bought the machine, even if
we didn’t) for roughly three scoops of lousy ice cream.

As we’ve written before, it is a curious fact of modern life that one
person’s labor is another’s leisure. Every day there are millions of
people who cook and sew and farm for a living — and there are millions
more who cook (probably in nicer kitchens) and sew (or knit or
crochet) and farm (or garden) because they love to do so. Is this
sensible? If people are satisfying their preferences, who cares if it
costs them $20 to produce a single cherry tomato (or $12 for a few
scoops of ice cream)?
_______________________________________________
Homestead list and subscription:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/homestead
Change your homestead list member options:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/homestead/lurine%40softcom.net
View the archives at:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/homestead




--
No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG.
Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.2.0/1494 - Release Date: 6/10/2008 
7:22 AM