{"id":944,"date":"2005-01-16T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T09:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2005-01-16T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2005-01-16T09:26:40","slug":"buy_local_live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Buy Local &#038; Live Free: Tired Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:Rp5qTxJDa6YJ:www.anth.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/bray\/tomato.jpg\"><br \/>\nOur wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonblogs.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&#038;search=Farmer%27s+Market\">farmer&#8217;s market<\/a> supports Robin Good&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masternewmedia.org\/news\/2005\/01\/15\/buying_local_produce_gives_anyone.htm\">statement<\/a> that we should &#8220;Buy local and Live Free&#8221;.  Good provides a useful illustration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It?s gotten to the point where much of our nourishment depends on a handful of giants.<br \/>\nAnd they?re shipping foods an average of 1500 miles to reach your plate, a practice that strains anyone?s notion of ?fresh.?<br \/>\nBut a quiet revolution is in the air, and we the eaters hold the power for change.<br \/>\nThe typical Tom (tomato) is exhausted by the time he gets to market.<br \/>\n1500 miles from field to fork ? that?s the trek made by the average fruit or vegetable these days. Because of the need to hold up over distances, our foods are bred, not for taste but for transport ? their ability to handle the long haul. And what do we eaters get? Tired tomatoes<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Yesterday&#8217;s winter farmer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/001358.php\">market<\/a> included a big stack of tomatoes, potatoes, cheeses, honey, spinach, apples, eggs, pork and beef.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our wonderful farmer&#8217;s market supports Robin Good&#8217;s statement that we should &#8220;Buy local and Live Free&#8221;. Good provides a useful illustration: It?s gotten to the point where much of our nourishment depends on a handful of giants. And they?re shipping foods an average of 1500 miles to reach your plate, a practice that strains anyone?s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,13,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}