The advantages of Getting Produce From a Farmer

[MY BLOG]

A recent article caught my attention about the huge seed company, Monsanto Company, and the suit filed against them by 60 small family maqui berry farmers, seed businesses, and organic and natural agricultural organizations. For those of you who may know, Monsanto is the mega large seed company who distributes genetically altered seed to people chosen to produce specific crops at the request of the us government.



Until I became aware of Monsanto, I figured that there were big farms and small farms, which was just "the way it was". As I researched Monsanto, I realized that their business procedures were putting the choice of the American public at grave risk. I actually want to be able to eat foods that appeal to me, not necessarily the foodstuffs that the government decides it wants to subsidize.

Buying your produce from a local farmer will do two things:

It will give you a much greater variety of food than you can find in the grocery store. You will know that "organic" means something healthy and the food is unlikely to get started from a genetically modified seed. The issue with Monsanto's genetically modified seeds is they contaminate all the crops in the nearby ares, destroying organic seed for the same kind of crop. The argument for the use of genetically modified seeds is to increase production and minimize dependency on herbicide use, both which are believed to be false claims.

There is fear that if Monsanto is allowed to continue to create genetically modified seed that contaminates and damages organic and natural seed, they will eventually have a complete monopoly on this food supply.

Going into fight with such a mega-giant is not something I wish to promote. However , all of us should understand where our food comes from, what is at the rear of the food that is grown and harvested here in the United Says and exactly how it came to be.

Increasing your own produce is obviously the ideal way to ensure the quality of your food, but that simply is not useful for individuals who are now living in cities. We are truly influenced by the small farmers of the country to bring all of us good, healthy, and nutritious food. Simply by purchasing food from your local farms we are sending a message to corporate gardening that individuals prefer to make our own choices and we have a greater variety of preference.

Let me personally share my experience as an example. Just before joining a CSA (community backed agriculture) I purchased my produce at the neighborhood supermarket. (Hint: the term super-market should alert you... ) I discovered I was eating the same things day after day, week after week. Right after joining the CSA I learned the true delights of Swiss chard, collard greens kale, mizuna, turnip greens, golden beets, kohlrabi produce, heirloom tomatoes in shades of red, green, yellow, fruit, purple, and dark, four types of cucumbers including " lemon " cucumbers that are out of this world, Easter egg cell radishes, royal turnips just to name a few new items in my diet.

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