Comments on: Walmart selling turkey for 40 cents per lb. http://bostonlocalvores.org/archives/1118 Thu, 17 May 2012 16:20:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: JJ Gonson http://bostonlocalvores.org/archives/1118/comment-page-1#comment-133570 JJ Gonson Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:14:53 +0000 http://bostonlocalvores.org/?p=1118#comment-133570 So wrong. So very, very wrong. So wrong. So very, very wrong.

]]> By: Bethany http://bostonlocalvores.org/archives/1118/comment-page-1#comment-132803 Bethany Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:49:32 +0000 http://bostonlocalvores.org/?p=1118#comment-132803 Turkey's from Natick Community Organic Farm are $4.50/pound. You have to be able to pick up your turkey on November 17th, they won't hold them for you, they don't have the freezer space. I've listed a link below. http://www.natickfarm.org/Pages/Turkeys.html Turkey’s from Natick Community Organic Farm are $4.50/pound. You have to be able to pick up your turkey on November 17th, they won’t hold them for you, they don’t have the freezer space. I’ve listed a link below.

http://www.natickfarm.org/Pages/Turkeys.html

]]> By: Kristina http://bostonlocalvores.org/archives/1118/comment-page-1#comment-132764 Kristina Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:40:39 +0000 http://bostonlocalvores.org/?p=1118#comment-132764 Part of the reason this continues to work is because there is such a disconnect. Even when its about food safety, there is a spike in concern and people stop eating said food, but then things go back, slowly in terms of spinach, but much quicker in terms of pork. The swine flu epidemic and epicenter being near a Smithfield pork farm in Mexico did not cause a mass boycott all pork products, though some people did omit it from their diets. When money is tight, things just get harder. Maybe it would be easier if on the turkey label it read: ___ lbs. of fossil fuels were used to feed, transport & butcher this bird. ___ lbs of waste were created. ____ of antibiotics were injected into its feed. Sort of like the images on the sides of other country's packs of cigarettes. Part of the reason this continues to work is because there is such a disconnect. Even when its about food safety, there is a spike in concern and people stop eating said food, but then things go back, slowly in terms of spinach, but much quicker in terms of pork.

The swine flu epidemic and epicenter being near a Smithfield pork farm in Mexico did not cause a mass boycott all pork products, though some people did omit it from their diets.

When money is tight, things just get harder. Maybe it would be easier if on the turkey label it read: ___ lbs. of fossil fuels were used to feed, transport & butcher this bird. ___ lbs of waste were created. ____ of antibiotics were injected into its feed. Sort of like the images on the sides of other country’s packs of cigarettes.

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