I want to eat healthy, I really do. I am rather large, and my work/school/family schedule allows for precious few moments to exercise. So I figure, maybe I can eat better. Less processed foods, more fresh foods. So then I look around. At the grocery.
Have you seen the prices? Is it really that difficult to grow healthy food versus unhealthy food, or is demand in this country so low?
It really makes me think hard about what is actually going into that fast-food burger, or that frozen dinner. Certainly buying in bulk doesn't give them deviated pricing to the point that my $.033 burrito has ingredients resembling anything from nature in it. I wonder if the European countries are going through this.
I am in the food service business, and I like to think that someone, somewhere has the advantage of using ingredients that were grown on a small farm, ripened on the vine, and picked shortly before going to market. Certainly in Europe, the foundation of most things culinary.
I used to think it would be great to open a restaurant in an area where I could go to the farmer's market daily to get inspired for the days' menu. Now I think I would go broke between the petrol bill to get there everyday and the gouging at the market. Maybe I'm a romantic about food, but I think there has to be a better way.
I heard on the radio yesterday that 9,000 farms closed for business in the U.S. last year. Two-thousand of them were in Florida. Less and less oranges grown in what has developed to be a tourist paradise. I live in Florida, but I drink orange juice mostly from California, and I eat their oranges also. There's got to be something wrong with that picture. It is more cost effective to ship produce from California than it is to grow it here? Something's definitely going on, and it's bigger than I think... I think....
Discuss....
Have you seen the prices? Is it really that difficult to grow healthy food versus unhealthy food, or is demand in this country so low?
It really makes me think hard about what is actually going into that fast-food burger, or that frozen dinner. Certainly buying in bulk doesn't give them deviated pricing to the point that my $.033 burrito has ingredients resembling anything from nature in it. I wonder if the European countries are going through this.
I am in the food service business, and I like to think that someone, somewhere has the advantage of using ingredients that were grown on a small farm, ripened on the vine, and picked shortly before going to market. Certainly in Europe, the foundation of most things culinary.
I used to think it would be great to open a restaurant in an area where I could go to the farmer's market daily to get inspired for the days' menu. Now I think I would go broke between the petrol bill to get there everyday and the gouging at the market. Maybe I'm a romantic about food, but I think there has to be a better way.
I heard on the radio yesterday that 9,000 farms closed for business in the U.S. last year. Two-thousand of them were in Florida. Less and less oranges grown in what has developed to be a tourist paradise. I live in Florida, but I drink orange juice mostly from California, and I eat their oranges also. There's got to be something wrong with that picture. It is more cost effective to ship produce from California than it is to grow it here? Something's definitely going on, and it's bigger than I think... I think....
Discuss....
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