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Shoppers hungry for local fare
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Natural Foods Merchandiser
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April 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Penton Media, Inc. Apr 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Uncertainty doesn't taste very good. Sour and mealy, like a bloated February mega-mart tomato, its tough skin sticks between your teeth like nagging insecurities. In many ways, it's an uncertain world beyond the end of the fork: food-borne illness, cloned cows, genetically modified crops, plus a general climate of iffyness fueled by things like global warming and war. Many people are arming themselves against the angst with locally grown apples and turnips.
Some feel that eating locally produced foods feeds people's hunger for security as well as for delicious fare. While we can't control international events, we can control what we put in our mouths. What we feed our bellies can also ...
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