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- From: Leigh <lh AT pressroom.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: tomato squeezers
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 08:54:41 -0400
Del hits an important point. People are educated on grocery store buying. A tomato picked in California and shipped 3000 miles to the east coast is going to be a completely different animal than a local tomato. In the case of the 3000 mile tomato, squeezing might tell you something about its health (which is going to be bad regardless), with a just picked local squeezing is vegetable abuse.
But, the customer doesn't know any better.
And speaking of 3000 mile tomatoes, last year I was out on the eastern shore of Virginia which is full of road side vegetable stand. Since I know a little about the business, I would ask questions and look around when I stopped. Even in the height of tomato season most stands were selling California tomatoes. There is something sorry about a food system were even tomatoes, during tomato season, aren't local.
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tomato squeezers,
Leigh, 04/24/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: tomato squeezers, Del Williams, 04/25/2001
- Re: tomato squeezers, Leigh, 04/25/2001
- Re: tomato squeezers, Victoria Mundy Bhavsar, 04/25/2001
- Re: tomato squeezers, Lucy Owsley, 04/25/2001
- Re: tomato squeezers, sunnfarm, 04/25/2001
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