Two separate people forwarded me a recent article appearing in The Consumerist: New Survey Says Less Than 20% Of Consumers Trust Food Supply. Yes. Ridiculous.
The link also contains a quick video highlighting the problem with our food supply chain, which includes the incredible fact:
“60 years ago, we could create a single calorie of food with less than half a calorie of fossil fuels. Unfortunately today to produce a single calorie of modern supermarket food requires 10 calories of fossil fuels.”
In modern times, efficiency no longer accounts for environmental impact - it’s instead a simple money equation. Yes, it may cost less to produce a bushel of corn today, but when the fossil fuels used to produce it have increased 20-fold, something is wrong. Seriously wrong.
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After returning from a recent farmers market in King’s Beach, Lake Tahoe - I expressed my surprise regarding the lack of vendors selling local meat. His response: “Yeah, you gotta be careful buying that kind of meat…”
It’s interesting to note that in this exchange, both of us expressed a lack of trust in our food supply. For me, it was supermarket meat. For him, it was local farmers selling their own meat. He doesn’t buy from them, so I’m not sure where he came up with the assumption.
Why should either of us have to worry?
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