The okra in the farm has to be harvested by a smelly diesel-powered harvester. Then packed in wasteful plastic wrap. And put on a loud, obnoxious truck and driven to a warehouse heated with propane. Then trucked, again, to the store that uses electricity, heat, machinery and wasteful packaging and put on a shelf until you pick it up, put it in a plastic bag, and drive your gas-guzzeling SUV home and put it in the freon-fill refrigerator - until you take it out of the wasteful plastic packaging which is to be be thrown in the landfill.
Unlike that you grow at home and simply pick, throw in your salad and eat.
Uh, but if you pick it and eat it immediately that makes you independent of their system. And that causes global warming.
I had a dog that loved okra. That’s why it came to mind. She got pregnant and started eating vegetables and especially liked the okra.
It’s really hard living with the guilt, knowing I caused planetary disaster because I was so selfish as to have a dog and feed her home-grown vegetables.
Yeahbutt....
...what about all the diesel to haul your 20 seeds
packs to you, hmm??
That *study* was designed to make the home garden look bad by including the costs involved in the house, from construction through to demolition as part of the carbon footprint.
Dishonest to the core.
plastic rant cont'd
... take it out of the wasteful plastic packaging. Place packaging in wasteful plastic trash bag. Put it in wasteful plastic trash barrel to be picked up by big smelly diesel garbage truck and taken to the landfill where it gets buried by a big smelly diesel dozer.
You could add to the beginning too. Most plastic resins are made in Canada or at least Northern states and are taken by train to various plastic product manufacturers throughout flyover country where enormous machines turn it into products. I know, I work at a plastic film/bag mfg. If you've ever gotten ground game meat from a small meat processor, we probably made the bags.
50 production employees and a $50k/mth electric bill. The entire town would have to be covered in solar panels to run the place BUT WAIT, solar panels don't make 440/460 volt 3 phase power. Even if they did, it would be too unreliable, but solar is not for the factories where the little people work. It's just for the little people's homes(which need to be tiny homes of course).
They'd probably love to outlaw hunting too but that's ok. We can make lab grown meat bags instead. Don't talk about the enormous machines in those "labs"(factories).
My mom used to bring home meat wrapped in paper made from trees but that was unsustainable. Paper comes off mill and gets put on a roll and shipped. NFG.
Plastic(from resin made 2000 miles away) film comes out of an extruder, gets rolled onto cardboard tubes, gets unrolled to go through a printer and rolled back up on another tube, unrolled again to be folded and cut with a 800 degree hot knife, stacked by hand into printed cardboard boxes, taped up with plastic tape. That's sustainable.
That hot knife punches down on a rubber roller covered with Teflon® film and they get recovered with Teflon® every few weeks. That makes it extra sustainable.
plastic rant end