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Has Lays Gone Too Far in Claiming Their Chips Are "Local"?

Tara Lohan | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Eating Locally, Farming, Lays, Local Food, Local Food Movement, Frito-Lay, Locavore, Green News
Tara Lohan

For most locavores, buying local usually means shopping at your independent Main Street retailer or farmers market, not buying processed foods from a multibillion-dollar enterprise as Lays would have them do.

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Am Food. Will Not Travel

Carolynn Carreño | Posted 06.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Wood Prairie Farm, Maine Potatoes, Lay's, Carolynn Carreno, Farming, Farmers Markets, Food, Potato Chips, Green News
Carolynn Carreño

Potato chip advertisements touting the importance of family farms and local food are fundamentally deceptive and offer all the more reason to shop at your local farmers market.

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Frito Lay's New Goal: Eco-Friendly Potato Chips

New York Times | Andrew Martin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Eco-Friendly Chips, Junk Food, Ruffles, Frito-Lay, Lays, Potato Chips, Business News

At Frito-Lay's factory here, more than 500,000 pounds of potatoes arrive every day from New Mexico to be washed, sliced, fried, seasoned and portioned...

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