Apparently, so many people are interested in buying locally-grown produce that even the big guys like Pepsico, Foster Farms, and ConAgra have taken notice. They’re releasing marketing campaigns that tout their “local” credentials. You can read the whole NYT article here.
What do you think?
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Once a pig always a pig unless you are Monsanto dressed up like a tomato. Carnivores eat their own and that is what big business is and will do until they die. Local my eye, not now, not ever. It’s impossible. If Agri Dow/Monsanto gets into the local food business it is for one reason and one reason only, to eat it alive. That is what it does.