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America Needs To Be More Like Europe When Shopping For Food. Hence... Not Hording 300$ Of Groceries For 2 Months And Get What You Need When You Need It.
Just thought it would be interesting. Maybe it would change our eating habits as well. We all live in this fast paced society. But nothing truly is that fast paced. We create an illusion of 'busywork' that accomplishes nothing. It has been affecting our diets and increased our DEPENDENCY on convenience aka laziness.
 respire  12 Aug 2009 20:49
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I agree with the subtext more than the overall title.

I've been reading a lot lately about the industrialized food supply (Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food" and "Omnivor's Dilemma", "Fast Food Nation", "The End of Food", etc.; and I went to see "Food Inc.") Clearly to me the petrochemical fertilizers, pesticides, growth hormones, etc are a dangerous and unsustainable food system, as well as the vast distances food ship, the lopsided economic policies which prop parts of the system up while the actual farmers fail, and even the terrible nutritional impacts of reconstituted corn products and fats.

There actually are some highly effective and successful alternative farms in the US and really what we need is to further proliferate what they've learned so there are farms like that throughout the country and then people could buy more locally produced healthier foods. That's not exactly the same as your overall debate proposal of buying less and holding onto it less but we're not on separate pages on this.
 
 Grenache  12 Aug 2009 21:48
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 Wow. it may not have fit but your idea is true. We need to change up to something better.
by  gottfried
 12 Aug 2009 22:18
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Why waste time and gas making more trips?
 
 dlmiller82  02 Sep 2009 00:35
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I'm going to disagree with the main title of this argument. I find it inefficient to travel to the grocery store everytime I require something because that's me getting into my car and burning through gas to go to the store. Its a bit different in Europe because people usually take public transportation to get to the stores when shopping (or at least in London, which is a pain in the ass by the way).

Plus the fact that with commutes being longer in the U.S., grocery stores might be 20-30 minutes away, which doesn't make sense to have to go everytime you require something. What would be much more effective is using the peapod service that Giant uses where they deliver the groceries directly to your house. Its sort of pricey, but its useful as hell.
 
 Damien  13 Aug 2009 21:02
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I guess we don't all have to work at the same pace.
 
 justsumguy  13 Aug 2009 02:17
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 Where do you go shopping? For avoiding you and attacking your stores... Nothing personal...
by  respire
 13 Aug 2009 02:52
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