Chicken? Really? Are you $!*$^!# kidding me?

[Ed Anger]

Eat local, they say!

The wife has a friend that won't eat anything from more than 200 miles away. She got pissed when we gave her kid banana pudding.

Fuck her weird rules.

[Neil]

There were some people here who were trying that 100-km rule, announced with a full-on media blitz.  They quietly dropped it during the winter when they realized that they wouldn't be able to eat any fresh produce for about eight months of the year.

[derspiess]

I blame Xiacob.

And I blame you.

I'm in favour of stringent food safety regulations and locally produced foodstuffs.

You're the arch-priest of the shareholder value moloch and the cretin who actually eats industrial chicken product while prioritizing a $0.05 price cut. The blame, sir, lies with you and those like you.

I drink locally

When I first moved to Cincy, that was kind of hard to do.  Now we've got too many locally-brewed beers to keep track of.

[citizen k]

  They quietly dropped it during the winter when they realized that they wouldn't be able to eat any fresh produce for about eight months of the year.

Never heard of greenhouses?

[Ed Anger]

  They quietly dropped it during the winter when they realized that they wouldn't be able to eat any fresh produce for about eight months of the year.

Never heard of greenhouses?

Canada picked the hockey tech tree.

[HVC]

  They quietly dropped it during the winter when they realized that they wouldn't be able to eat any fresh produce for about eight months of the year.

Never heard of greenhouses?

100-km from a city rule means there's a good chance there's no green houses in that area.

[Eddie Teach]

Canada's not really fit for human habitation, so you either have to subsist on seal and moose or cart your food in from elsewhere.

[derspiess]

  They quietly dropped it during the winter when they realized that they wouldn't be able to eat any fresh produce for about eight months of the year.

Never heard of greenhouses?

Canada picked the hockey tech tree.

[citizen k]

100-km from a city rule means there's a good chance there's no green houses in that area.

And its illegal to build any?

[Neil]

  They quietly dropped it during the winter when they realized that they wouldn't be able to eat any fresh produce for about eight months of the year.

Never heard of greenhouses?

100-km from a city rule means there's a good chance there's no green houses in that area.

There are, but they're rare and expensive.  If these people had been rich, it wouldn't have been a problem.  And greenhouses aren't proof against the cold.

[Razgovory]

Mine are locally sourced from Kroger. It's less than 2 miles away. 

Fuck if I know where my local Kroger gets their food.  I doubt that lobster is locally grown though.

[Barrister]

  They quietly dropped it during the winter when they realized that they wouldn't be able to eat any fresh produce for about eight months of the year.

Never heard of greenhouses?

Greenhouses are wonderful and do extend the growing season.

But they don't work so well in -30C in January.  Even at the local farmers market you won't find greenhouse-grown veggies that time of year.

[KRonn]

Given China's recent history and reputation for food safety, nervousness already surrounds the prospect of U.S.-raised and slaughtered chicken being processed in China before being shipped back to the United States. 

I'm very surprised that it's cheaper to ship the birds or their carcasses to China for slaughter, then ship them back to the US for sale in markets! In fact, from what I've been reading some companies are finding it not such a bargain to produce products in China due to rising wage and benefit demands by Chinese workers, then the cost of shipping the goods to the US.
Then too after all the food issues by China I usually try not to buy food grown or processed in China.

[Grey Fox]

  They quietly dropped it during the winter when they realized that they wouldn't be able to eat any fresh produce for about eight months of the year.

Never heard of greenhouses?

so, 6 months instead?

[Tamas]

If all the "free range" stuff labelled as such here in the UK would actually be free range, every house would need to be full of chickens.

I favour quality stuff greatly, my grandparents had animals, I ate them, I know there IS difference compared to the industrialized ones, but lets face it: there is too many of us humans to feed us based on medieval-style technics.