MetaFilter posts tagged with produce

Feliz Dia Del Trabajador

univac — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:36:14 -0800

Hope withers on the vine. A look at daily life among the produce workers in Mecca, California.

Your unborn child as produce

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:30:55 -0800

Your unborn child as produce - You'll never look at chard the same way again.

Produce aisle freak show

hydrophonic — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:24:40 -0800

Mutatoes is a photographic collection by artist Uli Westphal of non-standard fruits and vegetables found at Berlin groceries and farmers' markets. The distorted, the discolored, the bumpy, the stumpy, the coiled and the conjoined all get star treatment. (Flash site)

LIVE LONGER! EAT LESS PESTICIDE!

crunchland — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:05:33 -0800

Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. Minimize your chemical exposure in the produce aisle. PDFs : download a pocket version for your purse or wallet; en Español tambien.

vintage produce labels

crunchland — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:46:23 -0800

Compare apples to oranges.

jokeefe — Sat, 06 Jul 2002 09:25:30 -0800

"We think of an orange as a constant, but in reality it's not." Canadian study finds that fruits and vegetables have lost much of their nutritional value in the last decades--potatoes, for example, have lost 100% of their Vitamin A. The reason, it appears, is mass production and a market that values appearance over substance. Is this symptomatic of deeper problems within a system where produce travels so far before reaching the consumer? Here in B.C., for example, the stores are full of California produce, despite the fact that we grow much the same fruits and vegetables locally.

sudama — Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:49:24 -0800

If you're lucky, it's not too late to sign up with a Community Supported Agriculture (?) program in your area. Imagine getting more fresh, often organic, locally-grown produce (of sorts familiar and un-) each week from late spring through fall than you probably eat in a month! Some friends did this in college and I was thrilled to find a farm near me this year. Is there one near you?