The Modern Food Industry

As I think about the term Local vs Conventional I am reminded of the Modern Food Industry. Several years ago I read a book written in 1918 called The Science of Eating written by Alfred W. McCann. This was truly an eye opener to what was going on behind the curtain in the food and agriculture business. There are two chapters that I am reminded of (1) “Two Kinds Of Food – The Constructive and The Destructive.” (2) “The Modern Refining Processes Are More Deadly Than War.” Wow! That’s what I said…
Conventional produce, processed foodstuff, GMO’s, and Confined Animal Feedlot Operations (CAFO ) produce foods that are truly inferior to locally grown products.
Joel Salatin said “Everything we’ve done in modern industrialized agriculture is to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper. Nobody is thinking about E. coli, type 2 Diabetes and the ecological health of the whole system”
Their are certain guidelines or fixed laws that farmers use for growth and development when it comes to crops and live stock. But, when it comes to men, women and children, foods are consumed in ignorance and without any idea of how it was grown or produced.
Ann Wigmore said “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison”
And the former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in 1988 said that " poor nutrition helped account for more than 75 percent of deaths in the U.S.
The terms “Buying Local” and “Local Farming” are not new but very old. These terms and practices are over 200 years old and are what most people knew as a life style. The only foods that were available are those that were in season.
Back then 40 percent of Americans were farmers and all were in local communities sharing thier produce. Today less than 2 percent of Americans are farmers or even live on a farm. So buying local is not something new, it is what we used to do that is finding its way back to mainstream living. Knowing who grows your food, how it is grown, what the animals eat and how they are treated make a huge difference in the mindset of many consumers today.
We here at SLG want to share the best foods available that are locally and sustainably grown. We are still a small group of family and friends that are trying to grow into a large community of people who care.

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Locally grown foods are truly amazing.