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To: Ron who wrote (765)	6/19/2007 7:24:07 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49004

A lot of the local restaurants in our area also used local produced food as much as possible. One grocery store that we often go to also buys as much local as they can from spring through fall. Of course, it's nice to try to get out to buy food direct from the growers, but I don't think that is practical for a lot of people, so this seems like the next best thing. Imo, the biggest stumbling block for purchasing locally produced items has always been making the connection between producers and consumers. It has to be pretty easy or it just doesn't happen. For many years, the provincial government up here was really getting behind assisting communities to establish farmers markets. We have quite a lot of them now. However, in more recent years, since many of the small towns were forced to amalgamate with the nearest large cities (which has turned out to be not really a good thing in many cases) the city business tax departments and various inspectors have really made a pain in the ass out of themselves with regulations and fees. It's been very counter-productive to the from-the-farmer-to-you movement and some markets have actually thrown in the towel and closed down. It really ticks me off how city politicians and bureaucrats can't seem to handle the idea of anything not being run by big business. I expect that the big chain stores are doing plenty of cheering from the sidelines.