For me I grow and preserve (can, freeze, dry) a lot of my own foods. Anything I don't grow or grow in enough quantity I source from local farms or from the wild when in season. There are plenty enough super foods that are indigenous to my area to not need something imported. I grew up that way and waiting for that first taste of fresh berries, tomatoes and corn etc are the highlights of my summer.

I also have fishers and hunters in the family so they stalk the freeze or I can alot of it every year. Other meats like chicken and turkey, lamb or beef I source locally. Same with eggs, cheeses, milk etc. For anything I can't source local I will first choice things grown,raised or processed closest to home. I buy most dry ingredients like spices and flour in bulk. This way I can save my pennies, support my local and regional farmers and economy, ensure no slave labour or animal abuse is involved, no dangerous chemicals are used and lower my carbon footprint.

I think there is way too much hype about certain foods that come from other parts of the world that can be found in my own back yard of equally or even more nutritial value. So many of the ills of today can be traced to people getting further and fruther away from their adapted indigenous food supplies. A case in point is the hugely dispreportional number of native North Americans with diebeties because their diets have been compromised by assimilation. There are lots of other examples among people groups who live far away from their ancestral homes. It takes many generations to adapt to diet change and even than there are health conseqences.

The rapid increase in super farms is what concerns me the most. Acres and acres of the same thing means the natural process of pest control is compromised thus the need for pesticides, early harvesting, the risk of things like samanila and the loss of nutritional value. Same with how beef, pork, chicken etc are raised on those corporate owned assembly line facilities where animals have no room to move.

I saw a recent documentary of one of those super facilities. They actually cut a hole in the side of the beef cattle and feed them directly into their stomache. No lie! It is disgusting how thiings are being done these days. None of those cows are allowed to leave their small stales. They are never let from their head lock bars to ensure not an ounce is lost by the cow expending any more energy than it takes to stand up.

That is my 'What the &*&%' food related rant. Buy local anything that can be sourced local and otherwise be concious of where it comes from and how it is produced.

Long winded per usual.