Eating Local

I think eating local is the first step to ending the industrial food market. Eating local would help the farmers in your area and by buying local you help stop funding major corporations which are putting pressure on local Farmers to lower their prices to conform to the cheap price larger companies offer. Also I would make a bet that Local produce taste much better than then food shipped from a ways away. From 1994 to 2004 Farmers markets have doubled because of people’s dissatisfaction with industrial food corporations. These corporations are shipping food thousands of miles away to be sold covered in pesticides and preservatives to keep the food fresh on the truck or plane ride to the destination. Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon, two writes from Vancouver, B.C., lived for a full year on a”100-Mile diet” eating nothing grown, raised, or processed beyond that self-imposed geographic limit. Although they encountered some vexing challenges along the way (e.g., no wheat, no sugar, no salt), they eat an imaginative and healthy diet. Over the course of the year Alisa and J.B. befriended local farmers and fisherman. Also the two became intimately connected to the geography, climate, and environmental challenges of the North West. I think that everyone should give a go at the “100-Mile diet” you’re not only keeping yourself healthier by not ingesting so many preservatives, but also your keeping your money local and not fueling major food corporations. If you make an exception of wheat, sugar, and salt I think the “100-mile diet” would be much easier. There are farmers markets popping up everywhere. Find out when and where one is and go check it out.

Austin Wright