This is me, caught in the act, during the San Juan County Fair. I was cooking Paella and discussing the importance of local foods and the need to buy from Farmer’s Markets. You can hear me speaking at this event here.

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I’m not going to write much about this here, because cause you can read what I’ve written here.

But if you eat meat, raise animals, have pets, it is in your best interest to inform yourself about the NAIS plan and act. As it stands now, this is a costly system which benefits no one but the ones who are proposing it.

The best safe-gaurd to insure the quality of the food you eat is to 1) grow it yourself, 2)buy locally from farmers you can visit and trust, or 3) learn and understand how food is produced in the US and then act to prevent things from getting any worse, then do numbers 1 and 2. Repeat.

Please listen to the Gastrocast Special Edition on the topic of the NAIS. If the plan goes forward in July of 2006 then farmers will be ruined, food quality will plummet, vital natural diversity supported by farm land will be lost to mega-corporations seeking profit, and our food will be largely imported–much of it is already. It may seem like food will cost less and be safer, but it will cost very much more in the long run, without any significant gains in safety.

Terrorists will not target small, local food sources. It won’t make sense. Help protect local economies and buy local. Let’s learn the lesson of other countries–consolidation of a nations food supply to a handfull of businesses is wrong and doesn’t work. It puts the nation at more, not less, of a risk.