Contaminated Chinese imports infected this summer’s news headlines. These “iffy imports” frightened consumers looking to enjoy shrimp cocktails and kicked Congress into debates over FDA regulatory responsibilities. While there is yet to be a resolution on how America will officially tackle the issue of imported food policy, concerns over food safety trigger a new twist on the recent movements urging folks to eat food grown and produced locally. It seems now more than ever before we as consumers are alerted to the reality that the best way to ensure the quality and safety of the food on our dinner plates is by choosing a source close to home.
To learn more about the sustainable food movement, join Food & Water Watch along with our friends at Sustainable Table as we slice into healthy and locally-grown food joints across the nation in our Eat Well Guided Tour. We will visit 25 cities in 38 days before ending at Farm Aid's Homegrown Festival at Randall's Island in New York City on September 9th.
To see if the tour is stopping in a city or town near you, and for more information about the sustainable food movement, visit: http://www.sustainabletable.org/roadtrip/
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This is such an important subject! As I write these words, my TV is tuned to ABC News--and the report is about more tainted products from China.
As for our homegrown tainting, it seems to come from factory mega farms, not the small family farms. I have never heard of a case of tainting in PA Dutch country farms in more than 30 years. I no longer want to eat strawberries on steroids from CA even though the local strawberry season is very short. The strawberries are tiny by comparison--but look and taste like the lovely seasonal strawberries of my childhood in the 1950s rather than the oversized but blander CA imports that leave such a huge carbon footprint from being trucked the entire width of the country. We can eat apples in winter!
That will teach them. What do you think ?