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  • From: Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Wal-Mart to source more fruits and veggies locally
  • Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:41:38 -0500

Those are walmart miles and dollars. Let's hope they don't cut the heart and soul out of local growers and communities like their stores have done to small towns. A walmart store is not my idea of a community center. A road side market or a neighborhood market is closer to what I would like.

Marty
On Jul 1, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Tradingpost wrote:

In an example, Wal-Mart said that by sourcing peaches in 18 states instead of just two, as it did before, it saves 672,000 food miles and 112,000 gallons of diesel fuel -- or more than $1.4 million dollars in transportation costs per season.





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