-Jerry

I agree with a lot of them, just wanted to hear some thoughts on it. Certainly meeting a demand for the majority and I definitely trust Canadian standards over Mexico’s.

To play devil’s advocate: Despite the energy inputs [and trust me, I'm all for passive food production and storage], I’d sooner have a product that was grown an hour away than a few thousand miles away, for one. I’d love to see the numbers on cost of energy input per cucumber, for ex, vs something that’s imported and trucked – I suspect on a energycost/unit would be relatively low, keeping in mind they only need it a few months in the year and can spread it over a lot of units of food. It does support the local economy [although far from a small business in this case, though not sure size is as relevant as location of ownership], and I think it supports local food sovereignty. I’d also be more comfortable eating food produced under Canadian law when it comes to pesticides and other chemical inputs. They also have a better shot at providing a fresh product in a market where time is critical to quality. I’m sure there are other good reasons folks can think of and weigh in on here.

Keep in mind that I am that guy that’s passionate about shoulder season growing with passive-energy cold-frames and cold hardy crops, passive root cellaring, grow-it-all-myself, seasonal-only + abstinence produce eating, etc. I live in that world. But this is a whole other world that exists to serve demand of the majority. The big questions in my mind are not ‘why produce food under a roof’, but more ‘why not produce veg that are cold hardy [spinach, kales, collards, mache, leeks, etc]‘ as it seems it would be sensible to do so. But I know why. People want fresh cucumbers and tomatoes in January. The growers are talented and entrepreneurial folks, I’m sure they could grow whatever it was folks demanded.

Thanks again for bringing it up.

I just mean “food miles” means nothing here when the crops are grown using so much energy