{"id":280,"date":"2006-09-26T22:09:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T22:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=280"},"modified":"2006-09-26T22:09:40","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T22:09:40","slug":"food_for_though_3-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though_3-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Why Local?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_2303.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_2303\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Img_2303\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_2303.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> This week on Food For Thought I discussed the e coli outbreak in the United States because of contaminated bagged spinach.&nbsp; But I put it in the context of trying to keep our food supply as local as possible.&nbsp; Just three counties in California were the source of illness for 25 different states.&nbsp; As the outbreak was sweeping America, I was eating very local at the Vancouver Island Feast of Fields.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to this week&#8217;s column in streaming Real Audio, click <a href=\"\/files\/fft_week39-06.ram\">here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For the latest on the e coli outbreak in the United States, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/oc\/opacom\/hottopics\/spinach.html\">US FDA<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about what the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is advising regarding consumption of spinach, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspection.gc.ca\/english\/corpaffr\/recarapp\/2006\/20060918e.shtml\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that all spinach grown in Canada is safe to eat, and my sponsor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capersmarkets.com\/cms\/\">Capers,<\/a> has secured a supply of organic spinach from two growers in the Fraser Valley.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_2288.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_2288\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Img_2288\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_2288.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> This was the ninth Feast of Fields held on Vancouver Island.&nbsp; It is a primary fundraiser for FarmFolk\/CityFolk, a BC organization that attempts to put people in closer touch with local foods.&nbsp; Check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffcf.bc.ca\/index.htm\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Food For Thought I discussed the e coli outbreak in the United States because of contaminated bagged spinach.&nbsp; But I put it in the context of trying to keep our food supply as local as possible.&nbsp; Just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though_3-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}