Comments on: Food stories of the year https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/01/food-stories-of-year/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 09 Jan 2016 18:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/01/food-stories-of-year/comment-page-1/#comment-331925 Sat, 09 Jan 2016 18:13:39 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=56930#comment-331925 “Chipotle has led the movement among fast-food chains in acquiring produce from local farmers… In an effort to reduce its carbon footprint, Chipotle increasingly has used more produce from local suppliers. In 2012, it bought 10 million pounds of locally grown produce, and bought an additional 5 million pounds each year, setting a goal of 25 million pounds by 2015, according to a review of company press releases and an email from Chris Arnold, Chipotle’s spokesman.”

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/12/11/chipotle-illnesses-is-safety-the-tradeoff-to-locally-sourced-food

At the company’s outlets, unlike those of most chains, customers pass before a glass screen behind which the employees are seen to assemble burritos (or whatever) by hand with the customer requesting more or less of one ingredient, asked to choose one sauce rather than another, and so forth. Now, it’s probably a fair objection that decent burritos are intrinsically handmade and that rival burrito chains are using much the same methods of assembling them even if they do so back in a kitchen where customers don’t see. It may also be a fair objection that the most serious problems of food pathogens were present in the ingredients before they reached the restaurants and would not have been averted had the company replaced the handiwork of visible employees with some mechanized assembly method.

]]> By: A Critic https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/01/food-stories-of-year/comment-page-1/#comment-331868 Fri, 08 Jan 2016 12:40:55 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=56930#comment-331868 Chipotle is national and industrially made. How is their fiasco relevant to local and handmade?

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