Eating out of the Palm of Your Neighbor's Hand

Today, I feel the need to express my concerns towards buying local food, supporting farmers' markets, CSA's, or take a stroll to the country-side and create a relationship with one of your local farmers, and buy it straight off the farm. Support your local economy.
When in Financial Strife, Keep it Local
The first point tangles with the struggling economy, if you don't know our country is facing dire straights economically, you must be Osama Bin Laden and hiding in the barren hills of Pakistan. It really isn't quantum physics here, supporting your local economy is a perfect way to support yourself, because your local economy is apart of yourself. Keep those dead presidents circulating in your neighborhoods and back alley-ways, not in China, or some small island.
According to a study by the New Economics Foundation in London, a dollar spent locally generates twice as much income for the local economy. When businesses are not owned locally, money leaves the community at every transaction.
Do it for the Planet Man!
ecologically, does it really make sense to have New Zealand send apples across the world? In my opinion every major city should have its own food network, so we don't have to send truckloads upon truckloads of food across the nation constantly, not only does the food miles contribute to the destruction of our ecosystem, it erodes nutrition from our food.
"The food miles for items you buy in the grocery store tend to be 27 times higher than the food miles for goods bought from local sources.ⁱ In the U.S., the average grocery store’s produce travels nearly 1,500 miles between the farm where it was grown and your refrigerator.ⁱⁱ About 40% of our fruit is produced overseas and, even though broccoli is likely grown within 20 miles of the average American’s house, the broccoli we buy at the supermarket travels an average 1,800 miles to get there. Notably, 9% of our red meat comes from foreign countries, including locations as far away as Australia and New Zealand." Source.
Bask in the Freshness
Instead of munching on produce that has been frozen in trucks for the last week or two, why not enjoy a succulent peach, that was just picked within 24 hours, dripping its juices of freshness, and be able to have a face to face conversation with the grower, and talk about the methods used, the care put into the food. Not only are local foods fresher, but contain more nutrional value as well. Something that speaks for itself, ever tried a fresh tomato, or home-made ice cream straight from the farm? End of discsussion, enough said!

Among the reasons stated with the bold title, there are many more reasons to stop by your local food store, or market. To gain a connection with your food, and the grower, a genuine sense of community and its cohesion. And simply, it's FUN! Really,really, fun...when you get yourself immersed in your local community it only perpetuates and branches off, you meet more local foodies who have similar passions, connect, and then you soon realize how much activity there really is out there in your own backyard.

Here was a report done on eating local foods:
http://www.foodshare.net/resource/files/foodmilesreport.pdf

Get crackin' on that backyard garden this spring!
Peas,Kc

I've decided to hop back onto the old blog here, I've got way too many random, pressing (in my opinion) issues that bounce around my head as I deliver subs to struggling bankers, and well tipping insurance company owners (thanks tom dawson), that I feel it necessary to somehow thwart it out into the open, regardless of who reads this thing, if anybody. Atleast it is down in ink. Technologic Ink.

Today, as everday, I struggled to get out of bed after staying up too late, to head down to the sub shop for my lunch delivery shift. And, as everyday, I see many people coming in ordering a Diet Coke with their wheat sub, and thinking they are doing themselves this huge favor, I can almost smell the odor of their satisfaction across the counter. Well, props on the wheat bread, but that Diet Coke is going to kill you. For any of your soda pop drinkers out there (and I know for a fact there are a lot of you), Take a good look at this...

"As for the Aspartame,

The advice from the nutritionists is Run! Diet drinks are a hoax. The Aspartame therein actually provokes a craving for carbohydrates which then cause one to gain weight not lose it. 50% of Aspartame is made up of Phenylalanine. In addition to the carbohydrate craving, it produces mood swings, insomnia, aberrant behavior, depression and PMS. "

"The other half is made up of Aspartic Acid (40%), which caused genetic damage and holes in the brains of laboratory animals, and Methanol (10%). This latter poison is methyl (wood) alcohol and causes leg cramps, back pain, severe headaches, abdominal pain, impaired speech, fainting, visual loss, shortness of breath and mental confusion.

The FDA approved this drug by calling it a "food additive," thereby making it exempt from safety monitoring. The medical establishment has become a major threat to health in the United States and the world."

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/recent.html
http://www.aspartamekills.com/

When I'm in the mood to jot something down, that I feel isn't mentioned enough in the mainstream circuit, I will just get it out of me here, and the list is already basically limitless, endless, a botomless pit.
So, think twice when deciding what drink to compliment your lunch...breakfast, or dinner.