To the older members of DU

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

19. I agree with electing socialists,also buying local.

Here's what is happening in our area on the southern Oregon coast in a town of 1200 persons.
This makes me all the more grateful for the area that we live in. Just a few miles north of us cattle are grazing on thousands of acres of green grass covered hills, with mixed forest.
We haven’t bought any beef from the market for six months, we bought a side of organic grass raised beef from a farmer fifteen miles from our home. We know who, how and where it was raised. even the color. The total cost including butchering, wrapping and labeling to our specifications, was about $3.75 a pound.
Our chicken is raised cage free and can be locally sourced as well. All the eggs we buy are local organic cage free and bought from the people that we know who raised them.
We shop at our new co-op as much as possible and buy organic fruits and vegetables from the people that grew them at farmers markets or at their farms. All of this is priced far cheaper than at the regular market.
All of our seafood production at our port is sustainable fished
This is fast becoming a movement in the area from Northern CA to Washington and may be the wave of the future, and yes I’m aware of all the problems this model would have in large cities.

Click on the video, look at the awards on the left side of the home page.

http://www.oceanresourceteam.org/