Buy Local Day is November 18th - Take the Buy Local Pledge!
Take The Buy Local Pledge!
Alarmed by industrial agriculture's interference in the food chain? It's easy to meet local growers and sellers. There are thousands of local farmer's markets, community supported agriculture farms, co-ops and local retailers across the country where you can show your support!
The typical industrial supermarket food travels an average of 1300 miles from the farm to the dinner table. Subsequently, consumers get farther away from their food sources while farmers command lower prices for their products. For every dollar a consumer spends on such food, farmers receive ten cents or less! Just a few decades ago farmers earned up to seventy cents. But in today's industrialized food system, more and more of our food dollars go to the corporate middlemen for processing, marketing, packaging, storage and shipping, and the people who actually grow it receive increasingly less.
The good news is that we can change this industrialized system by demanding and supporting local, organic foods!
Take The Buy Local pledge!
Find a local Farmer's Market, CSA, or Food Co-op
Find organic, sustainable and humanely raised meat and dairy products in your area through Sustainable Table's Eat Well Guide
Check out the 100-Mile Diet for help in eating locally
| Sample Letter for Campaign |
Subject: I pledge to buy local and organic!
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
I pledge to support local, organic foods this Buy Local Day! By choosing local food, I am supporting local family farmers, my community and the environment.
Signed by:
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Campaign Launched:
November 16, 2006
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