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This is scary. Very scary.

All the more reason to trust your health to your local farmer before a Chinese importer.

Maryanne at 3:11PM on 07/11/07

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The Farm Bill Needs You

The farm bill is the most important piece of legislation I can think of, although I have no hope it will pass.
These days it is so easy to identify our Congressional reps: just write in your zip code at http://www.house.gov/writerep. I did, and hope that you do too.

Maryanne at 5:58PM on 07/05/07

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Does Organic Food Taste Better? The Serious Eats Community Taste Test

LOCAL food always tastes better, whether or not it is organic. Travel time ruins taste.

Maryanne at 7:20PM on 05/14/07

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Time Magazine: Eating Local Is Better Than Organic

I agree with John, After all the environmental facets of local vs organic arguments are put on the table, in the end it's Taste that matters the most.

I blog on local Hudson Valley foods and issues at http://thepersonalfarmer.typepad.com.

Maryanne at 3:06PM on 03/09/07

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The Farm Bill Needs You

I've been doing a lot of Farm Bill research lately and find it fascinatingly depressing that more people, especially food lovers with all of our loquaciousness, aren't more interested or knowledgable or preachy about this critical piece of legislation. This bill, commandeering close to a hundred billion tax dollars, pretty much directs what every human being in this country puts into our bodies as food and what we put into the air and water and land as pollution. This bill is one of the most significant forces affecting food, farming, and land use in the United States yet most of us don’t even know of its existence, much less the myriad consequences it brings.

jbeach at 10:42PM on 07/05/07

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Does Organic Food Taste Better? The Serious Eats Community Taste Test

organic
fresh
local
These are not synonyms. Just because something is organic does not mean that the grower/producer has chosen the most flavorful product, he's just grown it without resorting to conventional pesticides/antibiotics.
I like the idea of taste testing celery. It's a single ingredient, not a composite flavor like yogurt.

Judith klinger at 10:54AM on 05/15/07