Food literacy a big focus for Ontario’s first local food report

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"Local" food has been re-defined by CFIA interim policy which recognizes "local food" as:

* food produced in the province or territory in which it is sold, or
* food sold across provincial borders within 50 km of the originating province or territory

This means that food grown in Windsor ON is "local" to Fort Severn on the shores of Hudson Bay, which is 1,580 km distant and no road connections. Fort Severn is 150 km from Manitoba border, so it cannot export food to Manitoba as "local".

It is also suggested that "local" food, by any definition, is not limited to fruits and vegetables.

The production of local chicken, turkey, pork, beef, etc. is also important for the government's attention.

Glenn Black
Small Flock Poultry Farmers of Canada

Local from the 2 Gov levels is the same but different .
Each has it's own criteria .
I would suggest that from the provincial side Local Food is just meerly just more of a feel good statement .
When retailers are sitting at their local farmers market one would surely think it must be local food . It has to be does it not ? Unknowing buyers could well be buying imported product or product produced not in their local area at all .

Many times potatoes are rebagged by larger producers who buy from other provinces or other farmers . Same can easily be done with so much product .
Also there is "product of" , "grown" and likely other misleading statements that many do not understand but take for meaning ?? .

It is all about the money and what ever little gimmick can be used to make money . Trust , honesty and money never seem to work well together . Same as trust , honesty and Gov .

The peppers flown into Detroit from Holland and then trucked too Leamington were they are re-labeled as Product of Canada or Ontario , now were do they fall in the designation .

If you say local enough times you start to believe it is .
Do people not know that Gov has people hired to spin things and make them look like they are doing things ?

Sighhh

Why are we not talking about GMO's, and how they are destroying our lives?

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