Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Buy Local

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When we Consumers
purchase
fruits and vegetables
from other countries,
we stand a risk
of importing
bugs, weed seeds, diseases
from those places too.
Those "tag alongs" 
create havoc
on food crops
and ecosystems
here 
often because
there are
no natural predators.
There is
nothing here
to hold them in check.
It has happened
countless times
before.
Why would
we want
to do that?
Buy locally produced
food crops.
You
get to know
your Farmer too.
~~~~
Glinda Crawford, 2011
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An example in today's news:
http://news.yahoo.com/asian-megapest-chomping-us-orchards-072755177.html

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