See...now you are giving reasons why not to shop at Walmart ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:41 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Big Bad Wal-Mart is at it again....
We get all our produce from the local supermarket for 2 reasons. 1. Its from 'local' farmers 2. Wal-marts produce just sucks ass. On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am glad to see that...maybe there is hope for Walmart. They have also > made a lot of progress in some of their other green initiatives. Maybe they > are finally wizening up...one could only hope. Most of the local grocery > stores by me get a lot of produce from local farms (Chicago area is > surrounded by lots and lots of farmland), so anything to keep things local > is good. Keeping it local helps the local economy and helps to reduce fuel > consumption and thus reduces our dependence on foreign oil. Smaller farms > tend to be greener in their practices than the mass corporate farms. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 10:03 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Big Bad Wal-Mart is at it again.... > > > http://www.slashfood.com/2010/10/15/wal-mart-moves-to-peddle-more-local-prod > uce/\\ > > 'Wal-Mart practically had us at hello with their sustainability > announcement yesterday, and we weren't alone. News that the retailing > behemoth was launching a new global commitment to sustainable > agriculture, with a focus on small and medium-sized farmers had blogs > and Twitter feeds ablaze. > > The announcement wasn't vague. It outlined specific goals that > Wal-Mart is committed to reach by 2015. Among them: > > * Selling $1 billion in food sourced from 1 million small and medium > farmers. > * Asking suppliers about the water, energy, fertilizer and pesticide > used per unit of food produced. > * Implementing a requirement for sustainably sourced palm oil for all > Wal-Mart private-brand products. > * Sourcing only beef that does not contribute to the deforestation of > the Brazilian Amazon.' > > > > > > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can > wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris > > http://xkcd.com/386/ > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329275 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
