Orange County has 24 thriving farmer's markets. But for how much longer?Will they be put out of business in the name of "food safety"?
Self-serving, corporate-backed legislation currently in Congress threatens to do just that.
From Opednews.com comes the following:
"The "food safety" bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. All are associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?
In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth of farming were winning. Not in absolute numbers but in a deep and growing shift by the public toward understanding the connection between their food and their health, between good food and true social pleasures, between their own involvement in food and the improvement in their lives in general, between local food and a burgeoning local economy.
"The "food safety" bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. All are associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?
In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth of farming were winning. Not in absolute numbers but in a deep and growing shift by the public toward understanding the connection between their food and their health, between good food and true social pleasures, between their own involvement in food and the improvement in their lives in general, between local food and a burgeoning local economy.
Slow Food was right - limit your food to what comes from your region and from real farmers, and slow down to cook it and linger over it with friends and family, and the world begins to change for the better."
There is much more of this article at Opednews.com. Read the rest of it here. The end of the article contains a wonderful list of positive things we can all do to be doing to support "slow food." We are blessed to have an active farmers' market community here in Orange County. Let your voice -- and your actions -- be heard now!
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