http://www.mmmmonadnock.com Eat Locally, Drink Globally Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:34:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.mmmmonadnock.com/index.php/help-wanted/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Steve Schaefer Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:17:27 +0000 http://mmmmonadnock.com/?page_id=17#comment-27 In response to the previous comment, Yes - it will cost you more of your budget to eat locally, unless you are actually producing it yourself, (and maybe it still will). Eating locally is in no way directly cheaper than buying food from big agribusiness at the supermarket. The reason is that those foods have many costs, economic, environmental, and ethical, hidden, covered by subsidy's, and entangled in the fabric of everyday business. We have a dramatically lower food cost, per capita, compared to our grandparents and all the generations prior. We have attained that by ignoring the ethical and environmental costs of factory farming. Also we have ignored our own taste buds, opting for what is readily transportable and durable over what is delicate and succulent. The real costs are in the larger world and our effect on it. In response to the previous comment, Yes – it will cost you more of your budget to eat locally, unless you are actually producing it yourself, (and maybe it still will). Eating locally is in no way directly cheaper than buying food from big agribusiness at the supermarket. The reason is that those foods have many costs, economic, environmental, and ethical, hidden, covered by subsidy’s, and entangled in the fabric of everyday business. We have a dramatically lower food cost, per capita, compared to our grandparents and all the generations prior. We have attained that by ignoring the ethical and environmental costs of factory farming. Also we have ignored our own taste buds, opting for what is readily transportable and durable over what is delicate and succulent. The real costs are in the larger world and our effect on it.

]]> http://www.mmmmonadnock.com/index.php/help-wanted/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Karen Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:46:50 +0000 http://mmmmonadnock.com/?page_id=17#comment-24 Hey, great idea to start a blog about eating locally here - after reading Barbara Kingsolver's book last year we tried to eat locally all summer and found it pretty pricey. Last year we got all our produce from the Keene farmer's market, and our milk and some meat from Connolly's in Temple. Yes, it was beautiful and fresh and local and we felt good about that, but it still costs more than the grocery store, unfortunately. This year we have our own chickens for eggs, and possibly meat. Would love to talk chickens with anybody! Hey, great idea to start a blog about eating locally here – after reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book last year we tried to eat locally all summer and found it pretty pricey. Last year we got all our produce from the Keene farmer’s market, and our milk and some meat from Connolly’s in Temple. Yes, it was beautiful and fresh and local and we felt good about that, but it still costs more than the grocery store, unfortunately.
This year we have our own chickens for eggs, and possibly meat. Would love to talk chickens with anybody!

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