Localvores rock

Localvore leader and Old Shaw Farm supporter Robin McDermott in the New York Times this week talking about the joys of eating local!! Link here. Go Robin!!!

The Times is just freaking out over eating local this week, running, by my count, three articles related to the topic! Which is awesome. Another great Michael Pollan article urging us to recognize that the Farm Bill is our national food policy and, as such, we should demand that it be re-written to better reflect what we want our food policy to be. "[T]he “farm bill” is a misnomer; in truth, it is a food bill and so needs to be rewritten with the interests of eaters placed first. Yes, there are eaters who think it in their interest that food just be as cheap as possible, no matter how poor the quality. But there are many more who recognize the real cost of artificially cheap food — to their health, to the land, to the animals, to the public purse. At a minimum, these eaters want a bill that aligns agricultural policy with our public-health and environmental values, one with incentives to produce food cleanly, sustainably and humanely."

An article about how the Prince of Wales cares deeply about local food systems. "We no more want to live in anonymous concrete blocks that are just like anywhere else in the world than we want to eat anonymous junk food that can be bought anywhere."

Though I think my favorite quote was Robin's. “There are a lot of people here who call themselves yokelvores,” Ms. McDermott said. “They get their food from within 100 feet of their homes — homesteaders who have their own cows, chickens and grow their own vegetables. They consider people like us as Johnny-come-latelies.” You have to be pretty cool to be this aww pshaw while being interviewed by the New York Times.

Thanks to CSAer Susan Houle for emailing me about the articles!!!!