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Steve wrote:

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:20:45 -0700, Billy
wrote:

Buying locally is just good for the area because it increases local
employment (improves taxes and local infrastructure), reduces the chance
of contamination (inherent in long distance transportation), allows
local farmers to produce diverse crops (which improves their income and
their soil) and the food tastes better.

You know Billy, I'm on your side but only one of those statements is
fact. All of the others are geo/demo relative or just plain
inaccurate.

OK. I already covered local buying which doubles the value of the
purchase to the local economy (New Economics Foundation,"Local Food
Better for Rural Economy than Supermarket Shopping" [press release],
London, UK. 7 August 2001).

Walter Goldschmdt's 1947 book "As You Sow: Three Studies in the Social
Consequences of Agribusiness" as summarized in Peter Barnes (ed.)The
People's Land: A reader on Land reform in the United States, Rodale
Press, 1975. Refers to increased economic viability in farm towns where
farm sizes are smaller and cater to local buyers, which has an
amplifying effect of increased goods and services being sold and the
ameliorating influence that it has on local infrastructure.

I can't find the quote that I want for long distance food contamination
so let me substitute "Is Your Food Contaminated?", Mark Frischetti,
Scientific American, September, 2007.

Using crop rotation requires fewer inputs (less petroleum products),
which will improve the land. It allows greater diversity, which offers
its' own protection to the farmer because he is not dependent (make or
break) on one crop. If the farmer can do his/her own sales or
distribution, they receive more than the 7 cents on the dollar that the
monoculture farmers get.

And lastly, it must be obvious that fresher food tastes better.

I gave up with the footnotes because it's time for my beauty nap.

I await you response as to where I jumped the tracks.
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Billy

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