Bioregional Food Sufficiency

The average T-bone steak in America has been in more states than the farmer that grew the beef. Keeping our food production and processing as well as devoting our food dollars to local food stimulates the local economy immensely (which we all benefit from). Advocates of the macrobiotic diet claim that food produced a certain distance from your home contains a different type of energy. I don’t know if it does or not but it stands to reason that in nature, everything eats locally. Furthermore, the community becomes less dependent on transportation when folks feed themselves. According to statistics it now takes fifteen calories of energy to put one calorie of food on the American table; four of which are for transportation. I heard the statement being made that there are no global problems, only local ones. Most of spend a lot of time and money dealing with and worrying about things that we can’t do anything about. If we would devote that energy to our little realm of influence, the cumulative effect would be a much better society.

Quote worth re-quoting...

"You can’t make the same mistake twice, the second time it’s a choice." -Unknown