OTTAWA: Knowing where your food comes from - (Ottawa Citizen)
March 25, 2008 – 8:43 pmhttp://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/columnists/story.html?id=78910f06-da96-48aa-8bb4-2502c8cb1da6&p=2
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/03/articles/food-safety-communication/knowing-where-your-food-comes-from-doug-powell-edition/index.html
Elizabeth Payne, a member of the Citizen’s editorial board, writes that the so-called 100 Mile Diet is both the title of a book and the premise of a movement that promotes local food as better for our health and the environment.
But as we slide into spring on the mountains of snow hulking along our streets and loitering against our houses as if they never plan to leave, we are not hearing so much about 100 Mile Diets.
Snow cones and cellared root vegetables, after all, are really not the makings of a food-based lifestyle. Which may be a slight exaggeration; the 100 Mile Diet in winter also embraces cabbage, rutabagas, turnips, stored nuts, canned tomatoes, not to mention meat and many other things.
Making sure it is safe becomes more complicated than just talking to the local farmer. A spate of recent scares about food — from tainted spinach and cantaloupe to […]
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