The green star award winner for May 2009 goes to Toni Dodd for buying local, organic milk.
How does buying local food protect the environment?
Local food doesn't have to travel far. This reduces carbon dioxide emissions and packing materials.
Buying local food helps to make farming more profitable and selling farmland for development less attractive.
Knowing where your food comes from and how it is grown or raised enables you to choose safe food from farmers who avoid or reduce their use of chemicals, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, or genetically modified seed in their operations.
See www.foodroutes.org to learn more.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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