Re: Milk now bad for you??
Yep, exactly. We have a lot of greens and stuff here, but those are almost always seasonal products and only available from late summer into early fall when they get harvested. Frozen spinach and kale (frozen kale is terrible, though) is the exception.
You know, I'm not sure about other countries, but I'm guessing it's the same there...but over here, a lot of food is still fairly regional and seasonal. We get some things shipped in from Spain in the off-season, but a lot of what people eat are things that grow around here in different seasons. So, in May everyone goes crazy for asparagus, in summer it's all about fruits and tomatoes, and in fall people start eating more pumpkins and cabbages. Things are slowly changing and more and more veggies are coming in from elsewhere, but I don't really see that as a positive thing. Most of what's grown around here grows well given the climate and soil conditions and shipping food in from across the continent (and especially across the world) involves a lot of fuel. Plus, more variety throughout the year tends to make food more expensive, because more of it spoils and those costs have to get recovered. Seasonal produce rotation makes things a lot cheaper.
EDIT I almost forgot about butter when I was talking about avoiding foods with dairy. You can avoid straight butter (even though margarine tastes like ass) but avoiding it in baked goods is hard. More foods are replacing it with "plant fat" (which is mostly palm oil) or straight up palm oil, but that's another recent development and I don't think it's a positive one. First of all, a lot of palm oil is not sustainable and as of now, there's no certification that says that the palm oil in your food didn't come from a plantation that cut down parts of the rain forest to get there. Second of all, palm doesn't grow anywhere near here, so it has to get shipped across the world to get here (yay carbon!)
Originally posted by MoonRaven
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You know, I'm not sure about other countries, but I'm guessing it's the same there...but over here, a lot of food is still fairly regional and seasonal. We get some things shipped in from Spain in the off-season, but a lot of what people eat are things that grow around here in different seasons. So, in May everyone goes crazy for asparagus, in summer it's all about fruits and tomatoes, and in fall people start eating more pumpkins and cabbages. Things are slowly changing and more and more veggies are coming in from elsewhere, but I don't really see that as a positive thing. Most of what's grown around here grows well given the climate and soil conditions and shipping food in from across the continent (and especially across the world) involves a lot of fuel. Plus, more variety throughout the year tends to make food more expensive, because more of it spoils and those costs have to get recovered. Seasonal produce rotation makes things a lot cheaper.
EDIT I almost forgot about butter when I was talking about avoiding foods with dairy. You can avoid straight butter (even though margarine tastes like ass) but avoiding it in baked goods is hard. More foods are replacing it with "plant fat" (which is mostly palm oil) or straight up palm oil, but that's another recent development and I don't think it's a positive one. First of all, a lot of palm oil is not sustainable and as of now, there's no certification that says that the palm oil in your food didn't come from a plantation that cut down parts of the rain forest to get there. Second of all, palm doesn't grow anywhere near here, so it has to get shipped across the world to get here (yay carbon!)
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