Recently I was listening to a radio report about a conference on farming and the associated costs of fuel in relation to getting goods to market. Unfortunately I joined in near the tail end of the report, and missed a lot of it.
There was the usual discussion about buying vegetables locally, or at least, regionally, to cut down on the amount of fuel needed to move the goods. Also discussed was what it actually costs to move raw materials to manufacturing plants and getting finished products to market. A few people were interviewed, then a couple of men who were identified as paper executives (the Weyerhauser, International Paper, Georgia Pacific type of paper executives – i.e., the companies deforesting the earth wherever and whenever they get a chance) were discussing replanting forests that had been harvested for the lumber. It was the basic, company press release information that we’ve heard a thousand times.
Then, this gem, as these gents were trying to justify their connection to the conference – “We’re farmers too; we just plant trees.”
Hop on the bandwagon, boys, anything to go green.
so green is green and The omnivores dilemma, the book, is a must read. fairly scary. do not eat any more things with corn, except yummy fresh corn from your farmers market.