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  • From: Victor Guest <vic@daena.eepo.com.au>
  • To: Permaculture WA <perma@eepo.com.au>
  • Subject: Community Journal/ food choices (fwd)
  • Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 12:15:56 WST

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Kate - Your concern over eating food raised in ways you don't support
is an increasingly visible choice many of us can make. The knowledge
that there ARE choices is at the root of the many green labelling
activities. It seems to me that where we obtain our food is ultimately
an individual choice. Some of us have more options than others, and
many people are working to make the options available more widely. I
raise my own poultry and lamb. I buy/trade for beef and pork from
local farmers whom I know and trust.

Others are doing the same. St. Louis-based direct marketing farmer
David Schafer tells of a vegetarian customer who drove from the east
coast to purchase poultry and beef from him. She joined PETA, the
animal rights organization, and forsook meat to protest conventional
livestock handling/processing. But she buys his products because she
can see that he raises and handles animals in a manner she likes.

Mary Fund expressed this sentiment well for me in the Feb '98 Kansas
Rural Center 'Rural Papers', when she commented on the industrial hog
wars in KS: "Frankly all this hog debate makes it very hard for me to
eat pork. For my part, the next pork I eat will come from a local
farmer -- someone I trust, someone I want to support."

-- Wyatt Fraas

On 31 Jul 98, Kate A. Smith wrote:

From: "Kate A. Smith" <katesmith@snip.net>
To: <iffs@nal.usda.gov>
Subject: Community Journal

Dear Journal:
...
And finally. Last week I had the "opportunity" to tour a very large
"egg production facility." I saw chicken hell. The conditions in what
I was told was one of the better facilities around were truly like
walking into hell.

This has thrown me into a personal quandary. How can I eat eggs and
even worst, how can I eat chicken? How did we ever let our food supply
be so out of our personal control? Here comes that cliff...
Kate Smith RISA Steering Committee Moorestown, NJ






Wyatt Fraas, Martin Kleinschmit

Beginning Farmer Sustainable Agriculture Project
Center for Rural Affairs
PO Box 736
Hartington, NE USA 68739
402 254-6893 fax -6891
wyattf@cfra.org, martink@cfra.org
http://www.cfra.org



  • Community Journal/ food choices (fwd), Victor Guest, 08/02/1998

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