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Rational Thinking On Locavore Movement A Welcome Sight
Virginia Postrel is among the most provocative and insightful people writing today. The Wall Street Journal, on whose op-ed page the Pundit wrote a piece titled The Roots of Editorial ‘Independence,’ just gave Ms. Postrel a bi-weekly column in its new Saturday “Review” section, and she happened to devote her first iteration to the locavore […]
Stewardship Index Still Has High Hurdles To Overcome
Our Sustainability Special Edition featured a piece titled The Battle Over The Stewardship Index: Will Wal-Mart Wind Up Taking Over. The piece featured something of a debate between John Vendeland, an ag consultant who has engaged with the Stewardship Index, and Jeff Dlott, a consultant guiding the process by which the Stewardship Index is coming […]
A New Hypothesis On Local: To Boost Sales, Sell It Through Supermarkets … Cornell’s Miguel Gomez Previews His Upcoming Talk At The New York Produce Show And Conference
We’ve written several pieces pointing out that the industry has a new event coming up this November: New Event Planned For 2010: Eastern Produce Council And PRODUCE BUSINESS Announce The New York Produce Show And Conference New York Metro’s Economy Is 12th Largest In The World Retail “Thought Leaders” Panel Announced For The New York […]
Pundit Mailbag — Where Does ‘Affordability’ Fit Into UC Davis’ Local Decision
Our coverage of local and sustainability — and particularly our series on the UC Davis/Sodexo procurement program — has engendered great interest: More On PMA Foodservice…Everyone Is In Favor Of Better Flavor But Is ‘Local’ A Solution Or An Ideology? Tom Reardon of Michigan State University Speaks Out: Wither Local? Dissecting The Meaning Of Local, […]
Are Critics Of Local Programs Devoid Of Taste Buds?
As part of our continuing series on local and sustainable, we continue to receive letters related to the series of pieces on the UC Davis/Sodexo procurement system that grew out of a workshop at the PMA Foodservice Conference. You can see the pieces here: More On PMA Foodservice…Everyone Is In Favor Of Better Flavor But […]
Pundit Mailbag — Taste Trumps Over ‘Local’
Our extensive discussion of the “local” phenomenon has recently included three pieces revolving around the procurement policies at Sodexo/UC Davis and a related workshop held at the PMA Foodservice Conference: More On PMA Foodservice…Everyone Is In Favor Of Better Flavor But Is ‘Local’ A Solution Or An Ideology? Tom Reardon of Michigan State University Speaks […]
SUSTAINABILITY SPECIAL EDITION
The Battle Over The Stewardship Index: Will Wal-Mart Wind Up Taking Over?
Wal-Mart has been an important player in leading its supply base to think of sustainability in particular ways. So recent news that Matt Kistler, Wal-Mart’s SVP of Sustainability, is on the way out of that role to take up a SVP of Marketing position for Wal-Mart on the west coast, and that Andrea Thomas, Wal-Mart’s […]
Opportunity Arises As New Report Says Produce Consumption Falls Short Of Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are out with a report titled, State-Specific Trends in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Among Adults — United States, 2000-2009. The media is picking up on it, with pieces such as Most Americans Skip Fruits and Vegetables: Fruit and vegetable consumption increased significantly in only one state during the […]
Dissecting The Meaning Of Local, Sustainable And Flavorful
We’ve written many pieces about the “local” phenomenon. So when PMA’s Annual Foodservice Conference focused on this matter, we wrote a piece titled, Everyone Is In Favor of Better Flavor But Is ‘Local’ A Solution Or An Ideology? That brought a lengthy letter from a noted academic that we published under the title, Tom Reardon […]
