But I don't want to make my own salsa

I have carried on a ten-plus year love affair with this salsa:

Every time I eat it I love it all over again. I put it on eggs, chili, and anything remotely Mexican-inspired. It's made with all natural, organic ingredients down in Eugene, Oregon, which is a couple hours away. So it's local. Why on Earth would I want to make my own when this salsa is absolutely perfect?

Well, there's that darned plastic container, which I'll reuse or recycle. But still, they made it just for this one batch of salsa. And there's the transport of the salsa to the store as well. I'm not sure what their manufacturing process is, nor do I know where they get their ingredients.

Sigh. I don't really believe that we should go back to making all of our food from scratch. Some, not all. Life today is very different than the days of Laura Ingalls. Men and women work out of the house. Our communities are not set up for complete self-sufficiency. And why would we want to live like that? Don't get me wrong, I have often believed I was born 200 years too late, and as a child I yearned for the 'romance' of the little house in the big woods. But realistically, I like my Joe's Jeans and my Danskos and my computer. And my salsa.

It seems to me that the folks manufacturing and selling this stuff are the ones who should be held to higher environmental standards and that we the consumers should be able to adapt. And when you think about all of the packaged food in the grocery store -- whew -- that would be huge. (I personally don't believe we need entire aisles devoted to cookies and crackers and breakfast cereals, so we could get rid of about 75% of those.) I would love to be able to take my empty container to the store and have it filled with salsa. Or mustard. Or yogurt. Or to return my container and have it reused over and over again. It's hard to imagine that ever happening unless the health department radically changes its policies.

I don't really spend a lot of time obsessing about this stuff, though I do wonder how this complex global food distribution business can ever be sustainable. How will it ever change? Will food become like oil and eventually there will be wars over olives? (I would go to war for olives. Seriously. Not really. But yes.) Does anyone have any insight or just a big old reality check they can throw my way? Do you get bothered by this food business or are you headed down the path of growing and making it all? And can homemade salsa really be as good as this???