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To: CindyDawg
True, but a good start is to support local ag producers (i.e., your local farmers’ market) and begin asking questions of larger American food processing firms. Many ag products are too bulky to make importation profitable (grain, etc.), so the focus for money-strapped producer nations is on additives and high-profit items. Changing one’s diet to scratch cooking, securing local basic ingredients and moving away from prepared foods is another way of cutting into the risk factors. Probably better for your health all the way around, too, since much of the standard shopping cart diet is over salted, sugared and larded with fats and additives.

As a disclaimer, I am NOT an organic-only zealot or a health food nut. I am simply a small ag producer and I believe that the more secure our nation is in it’s vital necessities, the stronger we all will be. I do not like to be at the mercy of anyone - especially government (foreign or domestic).

13 posted on 12/08/2007 6:54:06 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Before all of this I have been considering getting back to basics for several reasons. How would you tell where the flour and sugar come from though?


14 posted on 12/08/2007 7:11:58 AM PST by CindyDawg
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