• Preparedness for National Disaster/Fuel Crisis • Local produce taste better • Local produce is better for you • Promotes produce diversity • Is GMO free • Helps to build community • Good for local economy/supports local farmers • Beneficial for the environment 11 What are the challenges to local food in Vermont? • Diet adjustments would be needed • Production diversity is lacking • Lack of processing and storage facilities • Cheaper to import foods from agribusiness farms 16 What is currently being done to
Kudler Fine Foods Vision Statement According to Lucas (1998), a vision statement must be the driving force of a company. The proposed new vision statement for KFF is as follows: Kudler Fine Foods will provide fresh, gourmet foods and fine wines at reasonable prices to discriminating customers. Kudler Fine Foods Values Statement The company values statement should impose a set of fundamental and strategically sound beliefs on a broad group of people, according to Lencioni (2002). The proposed new values statement for KFF is as follows: Kudler Fine Foods will only use the finest organic ingredients purchased from local farmers whenever possible. We will use only the freshest products without unnecessary additives in our products.
Greene’s crop made up about 20% of GRT Salads production, yet GRT marketed that 80% of their vegetables were grown by Greene Gardens. Both of these companies are stakeholders in this story, with Seth Greene and his company being at the forefront. Greene’s dilemma begins with the FDA’s report on September 14, 2006, when they issued a warning to all consumers to avoid eating fresh bagged spinach. Their report stated that an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 had surfaced in eight different states, resulting in the death of one person and 49 others becoming ill. This initial report stated that the first reported case occurred several weeks earlier, but health officials were unable to determine spinach as the culprit until more cases were reported and they were able to find a common link between them.
Approximately _____15,00_____ acres of fresh tomatoes and ____110,000______ acres of processing tomatoes are grown annually in the southern San Joaquin Valley. True or (False) (italicize one): California is NOT the major supplier of carrots for the US. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1182/pdf/06SanJoaquinValley.pdf Mining ground water for agriculture has enabled the San Joaquin Valley of California to become one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions, while simultaneously contributing to what? ____to one of the single largest alterations of the land surface attributed to humankind.___ California ranks as the largest agricultural producing state in the nation, producing what percent of the total U.S. agricultural value? ____11_____% The Central Valley of California produces about what percent of the nation’s table food on only 1 percentof the country’s farmland?
Michael Pollan suggests how industrial food system is unsustainable because of monocultures, which means a lot of the same species are grown together and that’s only possible by using antibiotics to keep them alive. To keep crop healthy, fertilizer is needed. For example, in Iowa, all the farms were corn and soybeans, which are for industrial use mainly. Separating the animals from the farms raises a huge sanitation problem and the animals are not happy with the conditions, a pollution problem occurs as well. Society is obsessed with productivity becoming cheap, which has made more problems regarding pesticides.
Pollan outlines the history of four crops-- apples, tulips, marijuana and potatoes. He discusses how humans have influenced their evolution and how crops have influenced our cultures. He recounts real stories, rather than myths, about such characters as “Johnny Appleseed,” an eccentric loner who helped colonize various apple crops across a new America. As a result, we do not have as many varieties of apples as once existed, and the ones we have are less resistant to pests. Pollan, Michael.
3. Every minute, Nearly 800,000 every year 4. No definite cure as of yet 5. Heart Attacks 6. The cause of heart attacks and were looking at family history and blood tests 7.
While traditional farming choose to grow organic produce and struggle to keep their businesses alive. In Jeffrey M. Smith book, Genetic Roulette the intro talks about the experements they had with animals and the GMO foods. Many of the animals organs were becoming defecting or mutated over time. After looking at the results, animals that consume the modifications continusly it can lead to serious health risks. In addition the animal’s lifespan was shortened and their offspring a lower chance of survival.
"This can only potentially get worse. We need to think about what we're putting into our grocery carts." A major source of concern is the fact that while grocery-store staples such as potatoes or apples are expensive in some regions, the cost of chips, pop and other processed foods is fairly low, and stable, across the country. It's a reality that is stoking fears that more people will be forced to dine on less-healthy
This way of improving foods has been taking place traditionally by just crossing two plants together and hoping that the new traits are taken without any negative ones (543). Since this is time consuming and not as accurate, scientists now just introduce the new genes, or traits, through the plants’ DNA. Genetically Engineered foods, although meant to be helpful, pose many problems by causing environmental hazards, human health risks, and economic concerns. To begin with, one of the problems with engineered foods is that they can become hazardous to the surrounding environment. This unintended harm to other organisms is caused by many factors.