By: lazyreader

lazyreader — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:40:20 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zqe4ZV9LDs

By: lazyreader

lazyreader — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:08:32 +0000

Can you really feed enough people waiting for food to grow. All these special farmers’ market set up by Slow Food Nation. They do this largely out of some personal agenda they have with big business. The idea being, if you don’t work at McDonald’s your not some minimum wage drone, if you don’t eat at McDonald’s your not contributing to some evil greedy corporation. Transportation only accounts for a small portion to the economic and environmental costs of supplying food to urban residents. Gas guzzling plays a huge role in local food systems. But those farmer’s markets and vegetable stands involve a huge amount of driving on lightly loaded fleets of vehicles. Have any of you ever been to a farmer’s market and have seen the fleets of Land Rovers, Volvo’s, and Porsche’s heading home with their cargo that all can fit in a glove box. 18 wheel trucks are far more efficient, since their filled to the brim with goodies. Since most of us typically go to supermarkets for more than one item. We’re much more efficient picking up a plethora of groceries.The eco benefits of this farming rest partly on the concept of minimizing food miles. I disagree with food miles. Their a marketing fad. We don’t need food-miles, we need pounds traveled per unit of fuel, or Pound-Gallons. Every semi truck we fill to capacity is another truck partially empty, we don’t need on the road. With worldwide crop prices soaring, the elitist don’t care. Sure, slow food tastes better, but agribusiness has long argued that industrial farming is the only way to economically feed a global population nearing 7 billion. Organic farming yields less per acre than standard farming, which means a worldwide Slow Food initiative might lead to turning more forests into farmland. The world will need twice as much food by 2050 and to perceive we can grow it all slowly and organically is viciously irresponsible.

By: sjsobolewski

sjsobolewski — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:09:36 +0000

hmmmm…looks an awful lot like this container built back in 2007:
http://www.redfish-bluefish.com/15apr08.html

By: Danilo Corbas

Danilo Corbas — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:59:36 +0000

See my shipping container house in Brazil:
http://projetocasacontainer.ad7comunicacao.com.br

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