Where Does Your Food Come From?

[tomcj2]

40% of the USA corn crop is used to make ethanol.

[schro]

Alioto's still there.

Yeah, major fumble on missing the wine. Besides Napa, the Livermore, Lodi, and Amador County Wine Regions produce some excellent wine. The Lovely Mrs. Schro and I were actually married at Wente Winery in Livermore, decent wine, incredible restaurant.

Other great wineries include Thomas Coyne (Livermore...produces an amazing "Tinto Reserva", spanish meritage), Michael Davip Phillips (Lodi, home of the "Earthquake" series, Gold Medal Winner), and Lava Cap (Amador County).

Cheers!

[thebbqguy]

We started growing our own food as much as possible. You'd be surprised how much you can grow in an urban backyard. What we do buy in the store is bought with the source country in mind. We buy U.S. almost exclusively and some Canadian vegetables. There are hundreds of greenhouses and hydroponic houses less than 30 miles from us right across the bridge to Canada.

It's a growing trend. Many of my friends are now taking the same approach. We buy at farmer's markets a lot during the season.

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Alioto's still there.

Yeah, major fumble on missing the wine. Besides Napa, the Livermore, Lodi, and Amador County Wine Regions produce some excellent wine. The Lovely Mrs. Schro and I were actually married at Wente Winery in Livermore, decent wine, incredible restaurant.

Other great wineries include Thomas Coyne (Livermore...produces an amazing "Tinto Reserva", spanish meritage), Michael Davip Phillips (Lodi, home of the "Earthquake" series, Gold Medal Winner), and Lava Cap (Amador County).

Cheers!

The Napa Valley & California generally certainly have become a center for wine from the offerings of Two Buck Chuck to the more eye popping prices from the Silver Oak Winery.  Bottoms up!

[Mike]

40% of the USA corn crop is used to make ethanol.

Which is why the price of meat is going up. That corn could be used to make feed to fatten up stock or even feed livestock in places like drought-stricken Texas where many cattlemen had to sell their stock for next to nothing, just so the animals wouldn't starve to death. Sure, grass fed animals are better but corn goes into so many feeds. When we were getting our chicken feed by the tons, we had a special recipe that didn't use corn because corn can cause off color in show birds and can be fattening. In the end, it was a better choice to go back to a corn base just because of all the horrible mess with soybeans.

 Something that we were talking about at work today were the GMO's, I am one of the people that would like things like that labeled. Sure, the US hasn't produced any studies about it but for an ethical reason I think they should be labeled. I don't want to start an argument about it but that is just my thoughts on it

[thebbqguy]

Mike,

I agree 100% on the labeling. I might buy it anyway, but at least it's disclosed. Everything should be accurately labeled and let consumers choose.