Comments on: Is Your Salad Bad for the Environment? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/04/is-your-salad-bad-for-environment.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:52:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: eh http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/04/is-your-salad-bad-for-environment.html#comment-7331 eh Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:27:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/04/is-your-salad-bad-for-the-environment/#comment-7331 <i>“Unfortunately,” he said, “we’ve educated our customers to expect cheap food, that they can go to the market to get whatever they want, whenever they want it. All year. 24/7.”</i><br/><br/>Absolutely true. Just today I was looking for fresh green beans, and felt a bit annoyed when I could not find any. But living where winters are cold, i.e. the (outdoor) growing season is just beginning, there is no reason to expect that I would find them. Except that is what I have become accustomed to. “Unfortunately,” he said, “we’ve educated our customers to expect cheap food, that they can go to the market to get whatever they want, whenever they want it. All year. 24/7.”

Absolutely true. Just today I was looking for fresh green beans, and felt a bit annoyed when I could not find any. But living where winters are cold, i.e. the (outdoor) growing season is just beginning, there is no reason to expect that I would find them. Except that is what I have become accustomed to.

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