Eating local

“Choosing local when I can makes me feel more rooted, and (in part because of that feeling, no doubt) local food tastes better.

“Eating locally also seems safer. [His] neighbors and customers can see how he farms. That transparency doesn’t exist with, say, spinach bagged by a distant agribusiness. I help keep [him] in business, and he helps keep me fed–and the elegance and sustainability of that exchange make more sense to me than gambling on faceless producers who stamp organic on a package thousands of miles from my home. I’m not a purist about these choices... But in general, I have decided that you are where you eat.“

-John Cloud, in “Eating Better Than Organic (My Search for the Perfect Apple),” Time Magazine, March 2, 2007

Click here to read the entire article on local vs. organic at Time.com.