I researched this article called "A New Prescription For the Local Food Movement" from Kendra Klein. This was from a website called "The Nation".
The CEO, Rob Casalou and the Chief Clinical Dietitian, Lisa Mcdowell from St Joe's Hospital decided to purchase food locally for the hospital. They started out with green beans. The challenged they received was the green beans were not ready for cooking, that have to be clipped and cleaned. The Chef complaint was he needed additional preparation time. The usual supplier of the green beans are ready to be cooked. This was the challenge, you buy locally, eliminating the middle man the savings were huge, the food was better. But you need more time to prepare the food.(Klein,2012).
The article was reliable. They were reporting results. I was able to find supporting articles on the net about the movement. The Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) have announced that 400 hospitals across the country the world have join. This organization encourages the hospital to purchase food locally for their cafeterias (Avila, 2012)
To tell the public that the local food movement is looking to move larger. This is informative and also a selling point. If you support the local food movement, then you may want to visit this particular hospital because they also support the same movement. As a informative article, it is clear that Ms. Klein gives you all the details with purchasing and distributing of food. This seems to be objective point of view. It not political but it could make a big difference on the food industry. In this article they give the food supplier name. He supplies all food and paper products. One stop shopping. The hospital food budget is four million dollars.(Klein,2012).
The Local Food movement is Hurting Farmers by Sierra Tishgart, Grub Street website.http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2013/03/local-food-movement-farmers.html
This article is stating it makes you feel better to shop from the local farmer's market, but however it is leaving the farmer with little to no money. Because the return on investments for fruits and vegetables are too small. Not profitable use of time. The farmers are surviving because of the school to farm partnerships and selling produce to WalMarts.(Tishgart.2013)
The local food movement is not helping the farmer. This was article from Grub Street website. Very short article there is no supporting evidence. The article is very emotional. Angry tone has been taken, curse words are used. This article can be called teaching and persuasion method used. I was able to find another article to support this particular theory. The intention are clear.
The two articles were different in several ways. The first article was very lengthy, current information was used, I was able to find supporting information. "The Nation" was more credible. The "Grub Street", is reputable website. Its is part of New York Times. The article however, was very short, and did not give supporting information. I was unable to find supporting information about the farmers making no money. Not as credible.
Cited Work
Klein, K. (2012). A new prescription for the local food movement. from http://www.thenation.com/article/170526/new-prescription-local-food-movement#
Avila, L. (2012) .Hospital-join-healthier-food-movement-video-story. from http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20130315/APC03/303150261/Hospitals-join-healthier-food-movement-video-story- written Lary Avila Post-cresecent media
Tishgart, S. (2013).The local movement is hurting farmers. from http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2013/03/local-food-movement-farmers.html
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Vanessa, I'm always excited to see what interesting and compelling sources you've discovered for your next round of research and this post hasn't disappointed me! I thought the first article was especially interesting; I didn't know hospitals, like St. Joe's, were becoming part of the local food movement. You could do a whole research project on this topic alone.
ReplyDeleteI poked around on The Nation's website, looking for their "About Us" section because you can usually learn a thing or two about the background, political leanings, biases, etc of a publication there. I found this statement:
"The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred."
How does this statement influence your analysis of the source's credibility?
As for the second article, did you follow the NPR link provided? Seems the article you wrote on is a summary of an NPR article. So, if you didn't find Tishgart's article particularly helpful or credible, you should definitely read the NPR piece.