On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:04 Don Wiss wrote:

>Allan Balliett wrote:
> >The price is nice, but the closer you buy to home, the better for everyone.
>
>Why? If you drive your car 100 miles round trip to pick up meat you
>will have created a much higher carbon footprint than having a
>package shipped inside a tractor trailer truck 2000 miles.
>

Once you try to satisfy BOTH your body's fundamental nutritional needs and the needs of the environment, you will have to compromise. Throw in convenience, price and social acceptability and you're in a mess. Work out what your primary, over-riding food selection criterion is going to be and stick with it. Don't allow yourself to be distracted by other peoples' priorities and criteria.

Keith