标题: Please Eat Insects + An Organic Milk Co-Op in Maine [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 2-20-2011 13:22 标题: Please Eat Insects + An Organic Milk Co-Op in Maine 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
(1) Marcel Dicke and Arnold Van Huis, The Six-Legged Meat of the Future; Insects are nutritious and easy to raise without harming the environment. They also have a nice nutty taste. Wall Street Journal, Feb 19, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703293204576106072340020728.html
Quote:
"Ten pounds of feed yields one pound of beef, three pounds of pork, five pounds of chicken and up to six pounds of insect meat.
"Insects produce less waste, too. The proportion of livestock that is not edible after processing is 30% for pork, 35% for chicken, 45% for beef and 65% for lamb. By contrast, only 20% of a cricket is inedible.
"Raising insects requires relatively little water, especially as compared to the production of conventional meat (it takes more than 10 gallons of water, for instance, to produce about two pounds of beef).
(2) Katie Zezima, Slow-Pasteurized,Yes, But Is It Sustainable? New York Times, Feb 19, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/business/19milk.html?scp=1&sq=moo&st=cse
Quote:
"'Milk sells for a very, very small margin' of profit, said Nancy Hirshberg, vice president for natural resources at Stonyfield Farm, a leading maker of organic dairy products. 'It’s about high volume.'
"MOO Milk got a lifeline in December, when 14 Whole Foods supermarkets in Massachusetts agreed to sell its milk. But it may not be enough to save it.
Organic milk "typically costs about $4 for a half-gallon, or double the cost of nonorganic milk.
Note:
(a) HP Hood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Hood
(based in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Hood was founded in 1846 in Charlestown, Massachusetts by Harvey Perley Hood.)
(b) Washington County, Maine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_County,_Maine
(c) co-op is short for cooperative (n): "an enterprise or organization owned by and operated for the benefit of those using its services"