Good for you for beginning to look at where your food comes from! What can you do next? Buy from local farmers - visit their farms - understand their economics. Yes, their prices may be higher than grocery stores; that's because family-scale farming doesn't have the economies of scale that factory farming does.
Visit LocalHarvest.org to find farmers near you! See the movie: Food, Inc and read Kingsolver's book "Animal Vegetable Mineral."
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Good for you for beginning to look at where your food comes from! What can you do next? Buy from local farmers - visit their farms - understand their economics. Yes, their prices may be higher than grocery stores; that's because family-scale farming doesn't have the economies of scale that factory farming does.
Visit LocalHarvest.org to find farmers near you! See the movie: Food, Inc and read Kingsolver's book "Animal Vegetable Mineral."
September 1, 2009 - 9:20amThis Comment
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