Monday, January 25, 2010

HELLMANS LOCAL FOOD VIDEO

Click on this link and watch the video. Gives you some pretty disturbing facts about our "local" food sources and our disappearing prime agricultural land.

For instance, did you know that:

On average, meals in the K-W region, despite being surrounded by farms, travel more than 4000 kilometers to get to the table.

In the second half of the 20th century, Ontario paved over 49% of its prime farmland.

Watch the video and learn more:

http://christiescorner.com/2009/06/10/do-you-eat-local-think-again/

And don't forget, Highlands is proposing to take another 2,400 acres of prime agricultural farmland out of commission.

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