The Vegetable-Industrial Complex - New York Times

The luxury of being rich and smart. I don' t disagree with a single word he writes except we no longer live in his ideal world. The E. Coli he's talking about is out there now. We can't put the E. Coli back into the cow. If everyone had the green market we'd all be healthier. Not that rich smart people don't want to eat in those places, but we also want to make sure that food is affordable. That lettuce we buy at $1.69/lb at the supermarket is pretty inexpensive considering where it came from. At the same time if you want to eat food that's locally raised, what are you going to do in February? We're going to eat a lot of preserved meat, apples, pickled veggies, and cabbage. Not too much grows after November is large swaths of the country. I'd bet that there isn't too much green stuff in general in January in NYC. It would be great if we were Alice Waters and could live a few miles from the greatest farmland in the workd with perfect weather 300 days of the year. But we don't and I still would like to eat a green salad in the wintertime. I'm stuck eating my lettuce from many many miles away. If they have only a few sources that lower the costs then great. It's better that its cheaper because it's expensive to keep your home worm.