Re: [london.food] Supermarket Syndrome

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On Sat 07 May 2005, Karen McAtamney <karen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
> I don't buy into organic food necessarily being healthier than non-organic
> food (though I'll concede it's better for the environment).

Coincidentally I now find myself reading this:

  http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-organic4may04,1,507209.story

which is not an extremely wonderful article in itself, but it did remind
me of the conversation at last night's dinner party (which is documented at

  http://www.livejournal.com/users/nou_cooks/9086.html

for the interested) about veganism not being unequivocally the most
environmentally-friendly choice.  The quote "I'd rather buy the
commercial broccoli grown down the street than the organic that was
shipped halfway around the world." is what drew me to read the article.

Kake

• Karen McAtamney 15:36 on 07 May 2005
  Kake:
  • Roger Burton West 15:44 on 07 May 2005
    Technically: monoculture, and pollen-borne transplanting of altered
    • David Cantrell 17:24 on 07 May 2005
      And field upon field of wheat isn't a monoculture already? Hah!
  • Marna Gilligan 16:04 on 07 May 2005
    Milk direct from a healthy, organically raised cow who's been eating tasty
  • Kake L Pugh 23:56 on 07 May 2005
    My problem is with supermarkets. I just hate being in them. They
    • candace 21:40 on 09 May 2005
      One of the first places I go in any new place is the supermarket. It is,
  • Kake L Pugh 01:01 on 08 May 2005
    Coincidentally I now find myself reading this:
    • [london.food] Red hot chili peppers. James Bywater 12:34 on 09 May 2005
      Does anybody have a use for the Scotch Bonnet peppers I have growing
      • too deep to show
• Re: [london.food] Supermarket Syndrome Nigel Rantor 11:44 on 11 May 2005
  Sorry for lowering the tone[0] but was that a typo or not?

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