http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/10/the-new-york-times-magazine-food-issue/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:20:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/10/the-new-york-times-magazine-food-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-11572 Diana D Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:21:11 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/2008/10/12/the-new-york-times-magazine-food-issue/#comment-11572 I liked the idea in MPs article that foods could have a bar code that would tell you more about their environmental impact when you scanned it with a reader in your cell phone (or something like that). I would really like to have a way to compare all of the ways I could be helping the world (eating local, vs. organic, vs. lower on the food chain, etc.) so when I make choices, they are informed by the whole 'cost' of the items involved. I think this is impossible, but hope we can get closer. If there is a source of such comparisons, please post a link. I liked the idea in MPs article that foods could have a bar code that would tell you more about their environmental impact when you scanned it with a reader in your cell phone (or something like that). I would really like to have a way to compare all of the ways I could be helping the world (eating local, vs. organic, vs. lower on the food chain, etc.) so when I make choices, they are informed by the whole ‘cost’ of the items involved. I think this is impossible, but hope we can get closer. If there is a source of such comparisons, please post a link.

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