Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

I originally sent the article to this list with the assumption that readers would readily see the problems (i.e. comparing inefficient local production with efficient foreign production), and, instead, focused on the need to make better judgments on what is shipped and how the producers are rewarded.  It was somewhat disconcerting that so many chose to focus on the original article's inconsistencies.  I guess I'm getting too accustomed to this list being so far ahead of the general public.

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----

From: TradingPostPaul

To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:16 AM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] NYTimes.com: Food That Travels Well

Michelle, I'm that person who "said the article was flawed because its
findings were comparing only farms with high energy inputs and low food
miles against farms with low energy inputs and high food miles". But what I
tried to say, Frances and Anna Lappé  said better in their unpublished
response to the editor of the Times. Anyway it turned out I was in total
agreement with Frances and Anna.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
listowner