sure. fine. that's nice. that's not a scalable solution and it condemns a lot of people to death. we are a collective and a society and it is our right to have safe nonpoisonous food. and we should fight for it.
Hit up your farmers market. See what they have. Talk to the producers. Ask if they do community share. Spend your money with people in your area. Put more power in the pockets of the farmers around you.
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I live in New England:
1) We can only grow veggies for like 3 months a year
2) farmers market hours are like 2-6 on thurs and 9-12 on sat
3) if everyone shopped there, they’d sell out after servicing like the first 2% of the local population
Three times counting the above point
Its so easy. ;)
The dipshits who said "homeschooling is the future of education" a few years ago made me feel the same way.
alas
Its expensive, you still have to do a lot of prep/cooking, you have to show up on specific days at specific times...
Sometimes its better than most products. Other times it's barely there. There's also greater risk of cross contamination,and just. People ignoring food safety laws even BEFORE the FDA got gutted.
FMs in Austin are luxury boutiques.
I just couldn't afford to eat FM vegetables every day.
And the huge farms get more inspection, because it is easier.
Privilege once again mistakes how the other half lives.
Privilege is no substitute for regulation.
https://healthunit.org/wp-content/uploads/Food_Safety_Guidelines_at_Farmers_Markets.pdf
There are twice as many people on earth now than there were 50 years ago.
Industrial agriculture and farming is the only thing sustaining us.
Other than starving people out of existence, what’s your proposal?
Spoiler: this is a very large group of people.
We need modern solutions for feeding the masses and that includes comprehensive safety solutions.
Those who grow for farmers markets/restaurants are a small minority.
Oh, and every branch has to duplicate every test for itself on its own food.
Strongly worded letters won’t do it
1) not have to care about other people
2) reduce people's survival to their own efforts (social Darwinism)
3) let the people tarnishing society off the hook
Turns out that when the choice is “do I sell this thing that maybe shouldn’t be eaten, and can’t afford my own food, or not”… people ain’t generous
can i get my botulism locally sourced
i want to make sure my e coli came from Watsonville and not Eureka
And in the past there was all kinds of crap farmers were doing to cheat; and super difficult to catch them
Also incredible when you look at the world