What are you going to do about this?

Question

The price of gas is up, making food more expensive. Many super market fresh foods travel over 2,000 miles, and on the list of 20 main "fresh" foods, the least amount traveled was 700 + miles.

As many of us know, this means for the food, to arrive ripe to its destination is pick green, and gassed on the road.

But now there is flooding in the wheat belt, and many fruit crops were damaged by the winds, late frost and fires in California. This now makes the supply less. (And we aren't even talking about corn prices going up because of bio-diesel, and the international disasters ...... )

Are you willing and able to spend 40% more on food? While gas is still going up?

If not, what are you going to do?

http://www.ferryplazafarmersmarket.com/sustainable_ag/issues/foodtravel.php

Answer 1

i heard on the radio(npr) last year that poeple would be willing to pay for gas till 4$ then all h**l would break loose. Well gas here is 4.30+ and no signs of hellfire.   The best we do is complain about the price of Resources and then pay up .    Truth ;1. Prices have been double what they are in the U.S.  for many years in Europe and other developed parts of the world.      2. gas prices as we know it are still Very cheap for the output we get from it.  

             A while back a buddy said 'nature gives you free stuff' , this is true as a rule.  What we pay for is the 'means' or path to the 'stuff';  the packaging , the transport, advertisement, refrigeration, Convenience?...  . the list goes on .  And now we will pay to make these means more 'green'!   Water is a good example.  People pay 2bucks for the delivery and packaging of a free resource that makes up 50-70% of Your Own Body.  

    The control of resources is a Deep seeded problem today.  How self reliant are we??   We hear that some people around the world are simply not about to afford food that is sold .   Is this our future?    We should think about the small steps we need to take today that will slowly pull us away from the giant nipples of  society as we know it.  

              Personally some tiny step I  have taken;  downsized my car,  bought a hub motor for my bicycle and quit the Gym.  There are 20 or so u-pick farms in my hood as well as true farmers markets ,they allow backyard  farmers also,  I found out about germinating and sprouting seed,grain,nuts and beans and the merit of taking something off the shelf after 1 or 2 years and turning it into something raw and Fresh.    Got 2 water filters and drink from the tap .  Ride my bike for Daily errands/groceries . Don't stock up on food that may go bad. Don't use plastic grocery bags. Have a compost bag for food scraps.  ..  There are a bunch of other big ones  but I'll keep them secret .