do you think this rise in food awareness represents a new political engagement from people - in a more direct way than every 4 years at the ballot box? These choices of food source have a direct impact on the agri-industrial complex when made in sufficient numbers, and they affect the health and well-being of our families and communities. Let's hope Oxford have made another prescient prediction!
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As a family physician and mother of three boys, I see the local foods movement as very exciting!! It is high time we all start to support growers of healthy food, that we learn to cook it and incorporate it into our daily lives. However, I also see that it is an all-encompassing change for those of us who have relied on chicken nuggets and box mac and cheese. I'm slowly reforming my family's habits and hoping to be of some use to others trying to do the same at www.ecoyear.net.
Thanks for these comments, everyone.
There's no doubt that being a more deliberate food shopper, cook and eater are profound political acts. The farm bill only comes up every five years, and we get to choose a new President every four years. But we eat a few times a day.
And when more and more eaters and farmers and food businesses detach from the anonymous food chain, the "agri-industrial complex" is left with fewer customers. The smart companies are already adjusting. Sysco, the largest food distributor in the country, is slowly retooling its warehouses and delivery vehicles and staff to not just service cross-country orders, but also to get local food to local customers. If they don't make this change, then their competitors will.
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