Why eat local foods?

A poster with a succinct idea concerning the why of local foods at yesterday's Farmer's Market (an especially pastoral picture captioned, HOMELAND SECURITY — Eat local foods), made me remember the Tufts University Food Awareness Project data: "The average mouthful of food in the U.S. travels 1300 miles before it is finally eaten!" Local foods [...] Related posts:

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