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Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View PostHe's a dumbass like Drake. He's like the fat ****s on yahoo comments who think it's un-American to eat healthily. Because certain things get associated with a 'liberal' lifestyle, they're bad.
The lower energy expenditures from not having to ship the food so far alone make it worthy if you are willing to pay a small premium for environmental consciousness.
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostA few of the on-campus restaurants here are "local food". I refuse to eat at them. One of them is "fair trade compliant."No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk View PostVery odd. What is wrong with "fair trade compliant"? It's a voluntary standard and makes people feel good about their choices, and it may even help. Is it fraudulent in some way?"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk View PostVery odd. What is wrong with "fair trade compliant"? It's a voluntary standard and makes people feel good about their choices, and it may even help. Is it fraudulent in some way?With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
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Originally posted by MRT144 View PostYeah, eating tobacco is hard.
Originally posted by Dinner View PostJust because you live in a place which doesn't have great local food doesn't mean the rest of us do as well.If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk View PostVery odd. What is wrong with "fair trade compliant"? It's a voluntary standard and makes people feel good about their choices, and it may even help. Is it fraudulent in some way?If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Originally posted by gribbler View PostThe shipping costs are already factored into the price of anything you buy. If the problem is unaccounted for carbon dioxide emissions you could just buy some carbon credits instead of restricting your food choices.If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostThe idea is that unless third worlders get paid the same as first worlders, you shouldn't buy from them. You don't see why that's bad?
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostThis, also producing fertilizer creates way more carbon dioxide than shipping, and in most places you need way more of it to get "local food" items to grow. This combined with agricultural runoff means that it's actually substantially worse for the environment.
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Originally posted by gribbler View PostIt takes money away from the third world farmers so they won't be able to feed their kids and keep filling their countries with more people."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton
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aOriginally posted by Hauldren Collider View Postin most places you need way more of it to get "local food" items to grow. This combined with agricultural runoff means that it's actually substantially worse for the environment."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton
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Don't have anything to post, but from doing research about it around a year and a half ago, fertilizer is a significant part of emissions but still less than shipping in most cases. This, and that organic farmers can use fertilizer with a reduced footprint.In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.
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