On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:25:05 -0800, you wrote: >http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/magazine/11DINER.html > >"Why the fuss? Because ''local food'' has become almost an oxymoron.
I wanted to revisit this issue for a few moments, in light of at least two recent ongoing stories: price volatility and overall rises in fuel, and some upheaval in the grocery store business. In the above article, the innovative restaurant owner had to sort of re-start a business or industrial process that had disappeared from his locality, which was the process of local farmers growing local plants or raising local animals for slaughter, according to clean non-pesticide-laden methods and humane-grazing and other animal-raising practices, and then find a way for this food to get to his restauraunt. So, although the article wanted to get to the money-angle of how can Wall Street Invest in franchising this "surprisingly" successful restauraunt, I've had a thought that they're sort of asking the wrong question. Were such restauraunts to appear elsewhere, it would be nice to see some division of labor, where the resaurateur would not have to also single-handedly remake his locality's food-sourcing business. So: maybe grocery store managers in various localities,... yes, even managers that work for big chains if they in turn are managed by open-minded thinking people who might be open to this.... can make a point of creating a locally-organically-grown section in their grocery stores. To be sure, this is practiced in many places, in some extent... the organically-labled angle much more than the local angle, from what I've seen. And in many areas, the idea doesn't seem to have taken hold, so I'm just sort of trying to flesh it out a little. If fuel prices continue on their present trend, we may even see the prices in such market sections being more competitive than they presently are. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
