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ImStillMags > wrote:

> This article pretty much echoes my own thoughts about our food supply
> and the food products available today.
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> http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012...ore-take-perso
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> Love to hear your thoughts on the article.

Some locavores take things to an extreme. For a good laugh, watch the
episode of Portlandia where the characters go to the farm to meet the
chicken that's been chosen for their dinner at a yupscale restaurant.
Sadly, there's more truth to that skit than some would like to admit.

Seriously, I have my own set of rules for taking personal responsibility
for food:

Lose the soda--artificially- or high-fructose-corn-syrup-sweetened.
Lose the bottled water, especially the vitamin-enriched stuff.
For certain foods, buy them only in season. Don't expect peaches that
have been flown in from Chile in January to be 1/10 as good as those you
buy from the farm stand in August.
Be picky about where you buy perishable items, particularly ground meat,
fish, and seafood.
Grow or forage what you can, even if it's just a pot of basil or some
wild blackberries. (Unfortunately for me, the city just mowed down the
himalayan blackberry bushes at the end of our street when they
reconstructed the stairway. Luckily, those berries grow like kudzu
hereabouts.)
The most important rule:
LEARN TO COOK AND BAKE, AND UTILIZE THESE SKILLS TO MAKE OVER HALF OF
YOUR LUNCHES AND DINNERS EACH WEEK.

Cindy, preaching to the choir

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C.J. Fuller

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