California Defies Florida Caution on “Diet”
NOVEMBER 1, 2007 - Not long ago, Channel 13’s Central Florida News ran a clip called “100-Mile Diet Gets Scruntiny”. While we were pleased that a mainsteam news program accepted as fact that less fossil fuels should be used in the food system, they made an odd segue based on the word “diet.” They advised that anyone undertaking a diet should first check with their healthcare practitioner.
Okay, we are risking legal action here with our brazen disregard but we’ll say it anyway: Yes, go ahead and eat home-cooked meals of fresh local produce WITHOUT consulting your health care practitioner.
Apparently, the feisty Humboldt County of California agrees with us. We just learned that they, and the city council of Arcata, declared September “Local Food Month” at the urging of the Community Alliance with Family Farmers.
While there are probably hundreds of communities with people organizing local foods events, we were stymied when a while back a researcher from the Texas Department of Transportation asked us if we knew of any civic governments officially supporting the issue. So now we have Arcata and Humboldt County; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Albany, New York.
Dear readers, do you know of any others? -ADS
