The Food Less Traveled
Submitted by Robert Daeley on Mon, 2006-06-05 12:44.
Who knows if such stats would make a difference, because some people aren’t ever going to get it.
WorldChanging: The Food Less Traveled:
When I tuned into NPR in Sunday, the weekend quiz show was broadcasting from Iowa. The host asked listeners to call in with an answer to the question: “How much money would go back into the Iowa economy if all Iowans ate their daily recommended allowance of fresh fruits and vegetables from local sources?” The answer? Approximately $300 million. That’d be an enormous economic boost for the state, simply for choosing local produce, with the obvious personal payoff being fresher (and thus presumably tastier) food….
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Wow. That would be a great figure to have on hand for all local economies. Sometimes I wonder if there is anything at all (coffee aside) that I can’t get from a California source.