Local Food Production

Why would people want to eat locally-grown food? In the High Country, we do have several choices when it comes to supporting the "buy local" food movement. But some may still wonder if there are any other reasons to support the growing movement toward local food production--other than the fact that it's neat to support local, sustainable businesses.

We can't expect the corporate media to report on the myriad reasons why local food production is important (they don't want to lose all those valuable supermarket inserts, do they?)--and will become increasingly important as the impact of global warming becomes more apparent to us all.

Free Speech Radio News recently aired a report that helps fill in the blanks by highlighting the links between shrinking glaciers and declining food production--as well as the related threat to global food supplies, given the fact that much of our food is imported from far away farms.

Indeed, why would anyone care if the Ganges, Yellow, and Yangtze rivers dry up? How could that possibly matter to us?

When combined, the two countries [India and China] produce more than half of the
world's supply of wheat and rice. Much of this production lies in areas where
irrigation depends on these three rivers.

Full report here.