Comments for Eat The City!

Comment on The Legal Definition of Pringles by eatthecity

eatthecity — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:40:51 +0000

You know what, you’re right. Particle board was the metaphor I meant to use but it just didn’t come out that way.

But wait, is that why religious Jews rarely have sleek modern furniture? Blood in the plywood?

Comment on The Legal Definition of Pringles by Mathew

Mathew — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:12:05 +0000

Adam, this time you’ve gone too far! Don’t denigrate plywood by comparing it to Pringles. In the name of anyone who has ever used a steam bender I demand a retraction.

Pringles are more like the shitty particle board furniture that lines the streets at ever “bulk night.” it never really fools anyone, falls apart rapidly, and owing to its melamine resin filler it never decomposes, just turns into formaldehyde-leaking sludge pile.

Plywood and the steam bending ply process are the two of the best things to happen to wood. Its an efficient and beautiful thing to do with wood, producing more goods in stronger, more appropriate shapes and with less material than traditional woodworking. Oh, but it’s not vegetarian, and rarely Kosher. Blood is a major ingredient in ply glues.

Comment on Eating Raw Seal Heart: When Supporting Indigious Food Cultures Pisses Off, Well… Everyone by DysfunctionalParrot

DysfunctionalParrot — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:17:01 +0000

Can I assume people will put up the same fight for what goes into their Big Mac’s?

Really, I’m just about 100% convinced that the media has faked the whole “outrage”.

http://dysfunctionalparrot.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/canadas-governor-general-chows-on-seal/

Comment on Vertical Farming: The Urban Farming Solution? by likesyrup

likesyrup — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:21:14 +0000

Glad more and more people are discussing this

Comment on Vertical Farming: The Urban Farming Solution? by Roxanne Christensen

Roxanne Christensen — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:51:45 +0000

A complimentary solution to vertical farming is sub-acre farming. A sub-acre farming method now being practiced throughout the U.S. and Canada is called SPIN-Farming. SPIN stands for S-mall P-lot IN-tensive, and it makes it possible to earn significant income from growing vegetables on land bases under an acre in size. SPIN farmers utilize relay cropping to increase yield and achieve good economic returns by growing only the most profitable food crops tailored to local markets. SPIN’s farming techniques are not, in themselves, breakthrough. What is novel is the way a SPIN farm business is run. SPIN provides everything you’d expect from a good franchise: a business plan, marketing advice, and a detailed day-to-day workflow. In standardizing the system and creating a reproducible process it really isn’t any different from McDonalds. So by offering a non-technical, easy-to-understand and inexpensive-to-implement farming system, it allows many more people to farm, wherever they live, as long as there are nearby markets to support them, and it removes the two big barriers to entry – sizeable acreage and significant start-up capital.
So while vertical farming will still take some time to get off the ground, sub-are farming is already showing how agriculture can be integrated into the built environment in an economically viable manner. This is not subsistence farming a la Cuba. This is recasting farming as a small business in cities and towns, “right sizing” agriculture for an urbanized century and making local food production a viable business proposition once again.