Ten Reasons to Buy Local Food

re: Ten Reasons to Buy Local Food

trini — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:38:53 GMT

My husband's suggestion to eating local is that when you eat what can gorw and survive in your environment , then it helps you to survive in the same environment. I live in the tropics. Apples, grapes do not grow here but we have coconuts, mangoes, sapodillas, avocados, bananas, west idian plums & cherries, and alot more. Nature directs us to eat what we have naturally available and also helps us to eat a variety by having fruits in " season" , you eat what is in season, too much of anything is not good right. It is the same as honey . Iwas advised to cosume the honey in my area to help my allergies

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webwitch6 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:24:14 GMT

I am still trying to get my hubby to understand that if it can be microwaved it is dead, devoid of all nutrition food. He thinks it's fun and easy and what is the biggy??

Well, we saw an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond", where Ray and Robert were in the kitchen nuking some plastic food in the microwave, and the father, Frank, comes in and sees his two sons looking over at the microwave while cupping and protecting their family jewels from the micro-waves.

After I stopped snickering and snorting all over the house, I noticed hubby staring over at the microwave oven a few times.

So, I will just remind him when he wants a quick, nuked lunch to protect his legacy (legacies?) while he waits for his food to cook! That should break him of the nuked food syndrome.

In the meantime, I will continue checking out the whole, real foods when I shop and eating real foods that have never seen a microwave.

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ExJohnson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:56:03 GMT

got to agree with stoic, our mainstream grocery ideology is to get everything prepared for you. Factory cookie dough in the freezer, everything microwavable, etc. This lifestyle is not sustainable, and soon we will all have to have a garden in our front lawn, back lawn, any where to supplement. Maybe it won't be for another five years, ten years, twenty, but it's coming. Go back three hundred years, 90% of the population grew the food for everyone. With the discovery of oil, the number kept shrinking to only about 3% of the population farming for everyone today. I'm thinking that's going to change.

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northernherbalist — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:16:53 GMT

In northern VT the seasonal farm stands are great, but you have to be one of those rich CEOs to afford veggies from the health food stores.

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Islander — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:01:08 GMT

And #6a: It keeps the money in your community - not the corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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Heather Marsh — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:29:49 GMT

We sometimes go out to a produce stand run by a market gardener, but what we are trying to grow at home is usually supplemented by supermarket produce - fresh, canned or frozen.

I ruined the home grown betteroot when I cooked it :(

My fertiliser is 'water' from my worm farm. I have found it compensates well for my brown thumb!

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NaturalCures — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:39:26 GMT

There is one more reason to buy local food... besides all the wonderful reasons Dr. Mercola listed. It is so much cheaper! We go to a local produce stand and buy peppers.. the biggest peppers I have ever seen... (bright red and yellow) for only 75 cents a piece. In the grocery store, these peppers would cost about $4.00 a piece. And when the peppers are older than the farmer would like, they give us a bag for a dollar! The other day, they gave me 8 large peppers for just a dollar! I was so excited. So look around for local veggie and fruit stands. They are around, trust me. You'll save a bundle... and be healthier for it!

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libertyvalance — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:47:34 GMT

Eat locally and avoid GMO foods at all costs! Download two free MP3 files by Jeff Smith at

http://drop.io/Summerbird They are the first files I posted so are at the bottom of the page. One is titled jeffreysmith and is a radio interview with Alex Jones. The other is titled, You're Eating What? and is a one hour stage presentation by Jeff Smith in front of an audience. Americans are woefully ignorant of the dangers of GMO. Europeans are much more educated and avoid GMO like the plague it truly is. It is NOT your grandfather crossing two varieties of soybeans. It is injecting DNA from cockroaches into pigs, or DNA from spiders into goats, or DNA from jellyfish into squash or whatever. As Jeff Smith points out, they are like children playing with loaded guns. They have little or no idea of what they are unleashing on the world. And once the genie escapes from the bottle there is no calling it back.

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Darinka — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:34:32 GMT

Reading this, I feel blessed by living in not-so-developed country. Lately, I can find some vegetables in supermarkets picked "green" and ripped on the way to the store, but I almost never buy them. I did buy some tomatoes in January two years ago - they looked beautiful, but that's all - they tasted like wax decoration!

I prefer to get the food at the proper time of year, from farmers' markets which are common in my country. The exceptions are some "exotic stuff" for which our climate is not suitable (e.g. bananas, oranges, lemons, avocados, etc.)

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L.E.A.N. Wellness Center — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:34:10 GMT

It seems like there has to be a limit to how many people can buy from local farms in some areas. Being in the Phoenix are, I can't imagine that the local farm-land could support much of the population of this area. I understand all the wonderful benefits of buying locally, but there have to be limits to its applicability, right?

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Bryan - oz4caster — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:27:59 GMT

These are all good reasons to buy food from local sources. In addition, buying local helps to reduce fuel consumption required in transporting the food.