I wanted to add a few things about the consequences of not eating locally.
A lot of organic food is grown in California. But now that the organic movement is getting so big and popular, many organic foods are also imported from other countries (especially in the winter months). I think we need to become conscious of what that entails. For example, if you are buying certified organic bananas, they are often grown in central american countries. If new fields are dug, then rainforest may be destroyed, local wildlife (monkeys, rare birds, etc) are displaced...they have less and less land to survive on. If the bananas are grown in fields already designated as farmland, then the rainforest just might be saved, but they are displacing local foods that were grown to feed native peoples. It is so sad that many children are starving...many mamas have so little to eat that they cease to even produce milk
...just so we can have "fresh" produce all winter long. And that is not even going into the environmental damage caused by trucking (or flying) this produce across many countries, then trucking it to all the local stores.
It is such a difficult decision. I love bananas...I cannot envision going through life never eating another banana. But I also need to be conscious of what eating a banana really means. I cannot blissfully think that "certified organic" =all good.
Maybe bananas will become an occasional treat...rather than an every single day staple as they are now. Maybe when our Ohio apples are ripe next month, I will choose apples over bananas.
Being conscious just fully helps me make the best possible decision!! Christy
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