buy fresh - buy local

STORE BOUGHT FOOD

PROCESSED FOOD

The Illustration above is not exaggerated.

When you buy food from a store, a fast food joint or food that is processed, The food chain and movement of the food is huge and complicated. This complication leads to higher prices, excess fuel consumption and food safety risks.

As much as you would like to believe that all food comes from family farms, It is just not the case today. The large "Factory Farm" is replacing local small Family farms at alarming rates. The factory farms utilize practices that are not in the best interest of the consumer, but are in the companies interest in the form of profit. To assure profits the factory farm uses excessive amounts of pesticides, genetically modified seeds, or antibiotics and growth hormones.

Large centralized Factory Farms must ship product to a processing and packaging plant then to a distribution point then to the retail site. We wont even mention out of season foods that are shipped from other countries. All of this transportation not only costs money, but it damages the environment.

FACTORY

FARM

Family

V/S

6311 Mayburn Barclay Rd

Kinsman, Ohio 44428

330.876.9118 ph

330.469.0810 cell

Factory Farming creates unnecessary pollution, unnecessary oil demands resulting in environmental destruction. We have seen what our demands for oil have done in the recent past to the environment, The more we demand the more damage we can expect.

The hidden costs of all this transportation and destruction have been explained in a fun but very real way in a video called "The True Cost of Food" In the video the "REAL" cost of a pound of meat is $815.00 per pound and $374.00 for a tomato! I know you are probably saying "How can that be?"

This is a must see video to help understand the impact of our food choices and the true cost of food.

The video can be viewed in the Education Center

along with many other informative videos, or you can view it here.

The True Cost of Food

This video explains how our food has changed. Most of the changes happened without anyone of us knowing. Not all changes were for the good.

Many of the changes did not make the news, they just happened and it is up to you to decide if it is acceptable to you.

Buy Fresh / Buy Local is a way to take back the environment, your food and your community. You will see the whole picture after watching this video.

The Future of Food

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