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There comes a time when we local foodies realize that we've been taking ourselves a little too seriously. I actually had that moment last night, when, after buying a bunch of fresh carrots at my local produce market, I realized that they had been shipped in from California. I was so distressed at this revelation that I nearly took them back to the store. However, I immediately understood the ridiculousness of my reaction and took the carrots home (and they were delicious).
The above cartoon from Toothpaste for Dinner gets at the absurdity of the current food trends and helps us (well, at least me) remember how lucky we are to have such food choice. In a world that is racked with war, famine, drought and malnutrition, those of us who have the opportunity be concerned about where our carrots were grown are truly fortunate.
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5-29-2008 @4:59PM Michael Schmitt said... THANK YOU for sharing that story about the ludicrousness of what you were contemplating. I think that we can get a bit out of hand here in the US when it comes to the ubiquitous nature of food in the United States and forget that there are millions of people out here that would love to have a bit of meat and wouldn’t care that the meat wasn’t organic or locally grown or if their milk came from rBST injected cows or the soy bean is of a GMO nature… We are very lucky to have the food supply that exists in the US, and one should remember that before turning their noses up at food.
I know this is the “there are starving people in Africa” line that my parents gave me when I was growing up, but the economics of cheap, readily available food means that conventional food is worth less than the “value added” expensive GMO/All Natural/Organic food that I believe we are being suckered into buying.
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5-29-2008 @5:36PM Hillary said... I really like this cartoon AND your story. I think the local food movement IS great, but certainly to a point! Thanks for this!
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5-29-2008 @6:09PM Lydia Walshin said... Perspective is a wonderful thing. We have the greatest choice of food options of almost any country in the world. The axiom "Choose wisely" has never been more important, or more loaded.
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5-30-2008 @8:12AM Alex said... Doesn't this story just highlight the fact that there are many people throughout the world who have very few real choices available to them, about ANYTHING? This just means that those of us who CAN choose have an even greater burden of responsibility.
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5-30-2008 @9:31AM Baron said... Good call, nice cartoon find too!
Genetically modified food will likely help save the world since they will be able to rapidly modify what can grow in very harsh environments or those, as the cartoon mentioned, that are ravaged by war. Imagine a crop that could grow and mature in half the time a tradition crop would or one that would allow a family to plant only a few seeds that produced a much more bountiful harvest than was possible before. Of course, with our "locavore" (might be the funniest word to come into use recently) movement, which I'm guilty of as I really love to eat the freshest items I can find (meaning if they were grown/raised locally so that they were picked/slaughtered the day I buy them, they are super fresh), the big companies quickly stop focusing on modified foods that would help the rest of the world out. They want to go where the money is, which, if it's back to basics, then back to basics it is. Ah, to be selfish.
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