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I would trade all of this in a second in order to be able to buy beer in the grocery store. (Quebec doesn't count, no standard canadian rules apply there)

bread! what better representation of humanity as a whole than something that can be found in some form on almost any corner of the planet?

I find it really difficult to understand where these so-called "local agriculture activists" are coming from in their claims that because you are not shaking the hands of the farmers, you aren't proper local food.

These people are the root of why the local food movement is having difficulty catching on with your average Joe/Jane.

While small-scale farm markets are wonderful things (I should know, I am the assistant manager of a market in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, which is basically the East Coast's Okanagan Valley), the reality is that the only people who attend are already convinced of the importance of local food.

We need to be reaching out to those in the mainstream. The ones who eat nothing but packaged supermarket food. The people who are intimidated by farmers' markets, or feel out of place there. The people who don't live within close proximity to a fantastic haven for local food.

This battle is all about access. While these corporations may be big and mean, the plain fact is that they are the biggest purchasers of food, and that isn't likely to change before our food sovereignty crisis is averted. Therefore the only way that our farmers have a fighting chance of surviving is by a great sea-change within the industry, where it becomes easier to access local, healthy food than imported, processed food.

If you have the fortune of having nearby opportunities to access fresh whole local food directly from the hands that grew it, fantastic. Keep doing this. Tell your friends. Spread that love. But when it comes down to it, these farmers can't succeed by just feeding a few dedicated members of their community. They need the support of every person who eats!

lobster

Big, fat, juicy, perfect, bright red strawberries right off the plant here in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia

Big Bambino: I still don't get your point. This is not a picture of a slaughterhouse, as you are comparing it to. It is simply an image of a neat, tidy, dead pig. Discussing exactly why you need to order the pig a week in advance is nothing like actually posting the images of the pig bleeding out. If you consider the image of an animal prepared for direct cooking and consumption to be graphic, then you need to loosen up!

(also refrain from looking at this picture of myself at work with a good friend of mine http://imgur.com/epjRk.jpg)