Slow Food: gas, suburbs and saving the earth

Slow food: organic, grown locally.
The growing movement is related not just to the price of gas, but suburbs going in decline, saving the earth, and much more.
Here's a contribution from a NineShifter:

I personally have another prediction for the future - although other folks have thought of it, too.

 

Have you heard of a world-wide movement called Slow Food?  It's all about eating locally grown produce and meats and poultry.

 

With the price of gas skyrocketing which has a tremendous impact on the trucking industry, etc, producers need to look at alternate ways to feed the masses.  Transporting produce, etc. across the country is becoming prohibitively expensive.  "Grow and eat local" needs to be the motto.

 

If the big food producers haven't thought of this already, they had better!

 

I am acquainted with the Slow Food movement, because I know a local gal who is very involved.

 

Recently, the NY Times had an article on more people growing their own produce.

 

However, not everyone can do this - nor can we omnivores have cattle and slaughterhouses in our back yards.

Thus, the big corporations need to get involved.

 

NJ is the

Garden

State

; yet the markets are full of produce from

Florida

and

California

as well as Central and

South America

!  What's up?

 

 

Sandra S. Hockridge

 

Warren

,

NJ

07059

Comments

[kassia]

There is a couple in Seattle that started "The 100 Mile Diet" which basically gets you to think about local food production - see if you can eat from just 100 miles of where you live - of course some places in the world are more abundant than others...
see http://100milediet.org/