[Lapg] Time Mag article on buying local

[Cory Brennan]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1595245-1,00.html Eating Better Than Organic Friday, Mar. 02,  2007 By JOHN  CLOUD 
     
  A selection of fresh vegetables from the Windflower Farm in  upstate New York, near the Vermont border. 
 Ben Stechschulte / Redux for TIME



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 Not long ago I had an apple problem. Wavering in the produce section of a  Manhattan grocery store, I was unable to decide between an organic apple and a  nonorganic apple (which was labeled conventional, since that sounds better than  "sprayed with pesticides that might kill you"). It shouldn't have been a tough  choice--who wants to eat pesticide residue?--but the organic apples had been  grown in California. The conventional ones were from right here in New York  State. I know I've been listening to too much npr because I started wondering:  How much Middle Eastern oil did it take to get that California apple to me?  Which farmer should I support--the one who rejected pesticides in California or  the one who was, in some romantic sense, a neighbor? Most important, didn't the  apple's taste suffer after the fruit was crated and refrigerated and jostled for  thousands of miles?


 
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