Another Good Reason to be a Locavore (as if you needed one)

We all know that news is currently pretty damn depressing. Sometimes, however, it's downright scary. The other day I heard a news story concerning food safety. Well, the bottom line is that the nation's largest food companies (prepackaged, i.e. Nestle) have frankly admitted that they are absolutely incapable of guaranteeing the safety of their products. Why, you ask? Oh, that would be because of corporate America's addictions to outsourcing and obscene profits. The corporations have outsourced production, which has been in its turn outsourced, and outsourced yet again, ad infinitum, until they literally have no idea what comes from where. All they know for sure is that most everything comes from places that have no idea of the concepts of quality control and safety inspection. And we are the beneficiaries (?) of this misplaced confidence. Which brings me back to my original point - if you've never thought much about the comparative benefits of eating locally (or at least regionally) produced food, think about it now. Your life may depend on it.......