An interesting review of a new movie about eating locally produced, healthy fresh food.
The reviewer points out the shortcoming of using lots of ‘elite’ chefs to sing the virtues of fresh food when the real issues are not the value of fresh, organic foods, but how to have it available (and reasonably priced) in the neighborhoods that now see only canned and processed products on their grocery shelves.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/movie-review-food-fight.php
The strange thing is I live out in the country where we can get a lot of cheap vegetables and the like at road side stands. But I still see the nearby grocery store parking lot filled with people buying produce trucked in from Mexico or Chile or…!!!
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You are right, Seamus. Dismantling the small farm infrastructure has eliminated the possibility of buying local produce outside of farmer’s markets. That is just one of the prenicious side-effects of goevernment food policy over the last 50 years. Hopefully we can start to reverse that going forward.
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