Comments on: Food Safety = Local Food http://chiotsrun.com/2008/11/16/food-safety-local-food/ A chronicle of an organic garden. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:09:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: farm mom http://chiotsrun.com/2008/11/16/food-safety-local-food/comment-page-1/#comment-614 farm mom Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:09:38 +0000 http://chiotsrun.com/?p=2123#comment-614 That's a tough one. On some level, you would like govt to intervene and interfere in those cases of animals and worker abuses, those cases of badly handled and contaminated meat/produce. And as someone who has highly allergic children, labeling is a godsend. Knowing the origins of your food is also vastly important, to me. But at the same time, rarely does govt ever make good laws, it seems where big agri-business is concerned. Things like NAIS rear their ugly heads and seem to have more to do with punishing the little guy, rewarding the big guy for bad programs, and using fear to get the general public on board. So for me, personally, I go the local route as much as possible, try to help others figure this option out for themselves as well....and hold out a bit of hope that someday a decent and rational law would be passed to further our food safety and promote small farmers and local food sytems. That’s a tough one. On some level, you would like govt to intervene and interfere in those cases of animals and worker abuses, those cases of badly handled and contaminated meat/produce. And as someone who has highly allergic children, labeling is a godsend. Knowing the origins of your food is also vastly important, to me. But at the same time, rarely does govt ever make good laws, it seems where big agri-business is concerned. Things like NAIS rear their ugly heads and seem to have more to do with punishing the little guy, rewarding the big guy for bad programs, and using fear to get the general public on board.

So for me, personally, I go the local route as much as possible, try to help others figure this option out for themselves as well….and hold out a bit of hope that someday a decent and rational law would be passed to further our food safety and promote small farmers and local food sytems.

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