Dec 28 Wheat Market report

[smcgrath76]

Not neccesarily my viewpoint, that I posted, just food for thought.
Does a banana produced by hand labour and shipped to Canada have a larger or smaller carbon footprint than a loaf of bread baked with flour produced with fossil fueled wheat?
I think the local food thing is a good one, but I can see the argument from the other side of the fence as well. I am not sure we can support local food on one hand and then target say the European market with our product on the other all the while leaving third world countries out of the game.

[cakadu]

Another angle to it Sean is the fact that in supporting locally grown food, people in any country, not just third world countries, have the ability to increase the local economy. Issues such as food safety are often more easily undertaken and people know where their food comes from.

Local food enables production of foods that grow best in an area, not forcing land to do what it isn't supposed to do i.e. try to grow grain on land that is pretty much dry year round.

By growing locally, you often preserve local customs, traditions and breeds of plants and animals that would/will be lost if we keep going down this train wreck of a path we are on.

I'll play devil's advocate from another angle of your argument. People quite often "pooh-pooh" the notion of sustainability, saying that 40% of producers will be lost if we grew agricultural products sustainably. Is that a realistic number or would it be better to loose 75% of producers if we continue doing what we have been doing?