Bad news: Eating local, organic won't shrink your carbon footprint

Newsflash: That isn't why people eat organic.

I eat local as much as I can... don't really care if I'm shrinking my carbon footprint because of it.

I eat cows from down the street.
Too bad they're trucked to Alberta, slaughtered, butchered, shrink wrapped and sent back first. I didn't ask to add as much of a carbon footprint as is possible.
But the lambs down the street I have no idea what becomes of them, we're only allowed to buy shrink wrapped mutton from New Zealand.
Sort of like the big damn lake at the end of my street that's made us all sick of trout and char, yet the procession of supermarket managers fresh from business college can't figure out why no one buys the farmed trout. Shit, they can't even figure out to stop ordering it.

I buy local to help support the farmers and cause of the taste differences. Trucked from god knows where can never compare with fresh picked.

Exactly, I buy chickens from a local Hutterite colony, because it tastes like... well... chicken. Beef comes from grass fed Holstein steers kept by a local dairy producer and pork she also raises. She also sells lamb from one of her friends. Fantastic!

Exactly, I buy chickens from a local Hutterite colony, because it tastes like... well... chicken. Beef comes from grass fed Holstein steers kept by a local dairy producer and pork she also raises. She also sells lamb from one of her friends. Fantastic!

There is just such a difference between locally grown fresh produce, and the stuff they sell in grocery stores. And there is a third level, produce you find in markets in places like France. Locally grown and sold produce is good, but those farmers know how to turn it up to eleven.

Good news: Only mental retards and psychopaths need to worry about their carbon footprints!

V8 juice is 1/8th gasoline.

Yeah in my part of the world the 100 Mile Diet means you can't even get to a WalMart or a Safeway. The Farmer's Market can't supply the 15 customers that show up. Maybe we can eat hay until they build a sawmill scrap wood-fired greenhouse complex...