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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: emitch@att.net, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Discussion with a Chef
  • Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:26:43 -0700


Why not? Because they don't know how to make any money farming any more.
And that's because they're stuck in the tractor row industrial model, even
with organics. More of what Ken said - the problem is in the head.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/25/2007 at 7:51 AM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>I had an interesting discussion with a chef yesterday. She is in charge
>of meals at a high-end Baptist school in Houston and feeds 1,000 meals a
>day to kids from kindergarten to 8th grade. As upper-middle class
>members, the parents of her students demand the best food for their kids,
>and that means organic, locally produced, as much as possible. I was
>surprised that, with all the resources she has, she finds it difficult to
>get the food she wants in Houston, and is forced to use conventional food.
> She is able to articulate the idea that people like her, with the
>financial resources, can help build the market so that there is more good
>food available for all, if producers can respond to the demand.
>
>I gave her the name of the president of TOFGA in the hope that he can hook
>her up with some farmers. Yup, folks, the market is there; the farmers
>aren't. Why not?
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
>
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