Interview produce and meat buyers from Harris Teeter, Whole Foods, Piggly Wiggly, Fresh Market, and the Reynolda Farm Market. -What percentage of their produce or meat products are grown in North Carolina, the Southeast, the United States? Do they have any public or internal policies regarding the percentages of food they procure from domestic growers? -How do these businesses determine the price they charge for their produce or meat? Do they have a formula? -Do they have significant knowledge of the labor conditions under which their produce or meats were grown or produced? -If they work through distributors, do they have any policies about any standards above (point of origin, labor standards, farming practices) they would like the distributor to consider? How are these tracked and enforced? -What does each interviewee wish we, the citizens, understood better? Are there any common themes? - Do any of the course materials/readings relate to this assignment? Did they help you to think through these issues? -Illustrate how the concept of an integrated bottom line (considering economic, ecological and social values) relates to the production and consumption of food. *If someone will not or can not answer any of the above questions, why? Is it lack of knowledge or something else?
Interview produce and meat buyers from Harris Teeter, Whole Foods, Piggly Wiggly, Fresh Market, and the Reynolda Farm Market. -What percentage of their produce or meat products are grown in North Carolina, the Southeast, the United States? Do they have any public or internal policies regarding the percentages of food they procure from domestic growers? -How do these businesses determine the price they charge for their produce or meat? Do they have a formula? -Do they have significant knowledge of the labor conditions under which their produce or meats were grown or produced? -If they work through distributors, do they have any policies about any standards above (point of origin, labor standards, farming practices) they would like the distributor to consider? How are these tracked and enforced? -What does each interviewee wish we, the citizens, understood better? Are there any common themes? - Do any of the course materials/readings relate to this assignment? Did they help you to think through these issues? -Illustrate how the concept of an integrated bottom line (considering economic, ecological and social values) relates to the production and consumption of food. *If someone will not or can not answer any of the above questions, why? Is it lack of knowledge or something else?
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