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While raising my own two children—who are now 32 and 35—on the farm, I think we took for granted the fresh fruit and vegetables available to us. Having been in agriculture all my life, I cared then about what my children were eating and I probably care even more now about what is available for my grandchildren to eat. (Being a grandmother is one of the most wonderful and rewarding experiences. I didn’t believe it when others told me but now that I have four grandchildren under the age of four, I am a true believer.)
Thankfully, we have an abundance of fresh food products never before available to us decades ago. I read labels and I make it a point to know where the food I serve my family comes from. Give me the good ole “made or grown in the USA” any day.
Does anyone out there prefer to be eating food imported from China, Mexico, and other counties now competing with our American farmers?
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:50pm
Ha! Our grocery stocks ‘fresh’ organic veggies typically imported from afar - many from Mexico. While I do enjoy the occasional imported specialty item, if I can’t get to the farmers market for fresh fruits/veggies one week you can bet we’ll be eating the frozen organic version produced stateside.
Those imported ‘fresh’ organics are about the saddest thing to hit a grocery aisle! If folks new to organics were to see those first instead of great locally produced /actual/ fresh fare, who’d eat it?