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Due to corporate pressure to ?get big or get out,? we have lost nearly 67% of our farms since 1920. There are now more prisoners in the US than full-time farmers.

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Buy Locally Grown
FoodRoutes Network
There are Many Good Reasons to Buy Locally Grown Food. You'll get exceptional taste and freshness, strengthen your local economy, support endangered family farms, safeguard your family's health, and protect the environment. Read more about why buying local food is so important in this innovative FoodRoutes factsheet. 12/6/2002
Community Consumption
FoodRoutes Network
COMMUNITY CONSUMPTION - Is what you eat eating away at your community? Fact sheet on sprawl and community issues for use by Farm to College programs. This resource on the relationahip between the food system and community can be downloaded and printed for wide distribution. 10/2/2002
Food for Thought
FoodRoutes Network
FOOD FOR THOUGHT - What if your university could decrease environmental degradation just by giving you fresher, better-tasting cafeteria food? Fact sheet on the environment for use by Farm to College programs. This resource on the relationahip between the food system and the environment can be downloaded and printed for wide distribution. 10/2/2002
Food from Our Changing World: The Globalization of Food and How Americans Feel About It
NC State University
If the U.S. could buy all its food from other countries cheaper than it can be produced and sold here, should we? This national survey finds that three of four (74 percent) of the U.S. public think not. And they may wonder, why should we? Yet 17 percent (about one of six) agree that we should get our food elsewhere when cheaper, while 9 percent (nearly one of ten) were undecided. 02/24/2003
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