The Benefits of Getting Produce From a Farmer

[MY BLOG]

A recent article caught my attention about the huge seed company, Monsanto Company, and the suit filed against them by sixty small family farmers, seed businesses, and organic and natural agricultural organizations. For anyone who may know, Monsanto is the mega large seed company who distributes genetically modified seed to people chosen to produce specific crops at the request of the federal government.



Until I became aware of Monsanto, I figured that there were big farms and small farms, which was just "the way it was". Since I researched Monsanto, I realized that their business procedures were putting the choice of the American public at grave risk. I actually want to be able to eat foods that attract me, not necessarily the meals that the government decides it wants to subsidize.

Buying your produce from a local farmer will do two things:

This will give you a much greater variety of food than you can find in the grocery store store. You will know that "organic" means something healthy and the meals is unlikely to have started from a genetically modified seed. The problem with Monsanto's genetically modified seeds is that they contaminate all the crops in the nearby ares, destroying organic seed for the same kind of harvest. The argument for the use of genetically modified seed is to increase production and decrease dependency on herbicide use, both which are believed to be false claims.

Right now there is fear that if Monsanto is allowed to continue to create genetically modified seed that contaminates and destroys organic and natural seed, they will eventually have a complete monopoly on this food supply.

Going into fight with such a mega-giant is not something I wish to promote. Nevertheless , all of us should understand where our food comes from, what is at the rear of the food that is grown and harvested here in the United States and exactly how it came to be.

Growing your own produce is obviously the ideal way to ensure the quality of your food, but that simply is not useful for individuals who live in urban areas. We are truly influenced by the small farmers of the country to bring all of us good, healthy, and nutritious food. Simply by purchasing food from our local farms we have been sending a information to corporate farming that we prefer to make our personal options and we have a greater variety of preference.

Let me personally share my experience as an example. Just before joining a CSA (community supported agriculture) I purchased my produce at the local supermarket. (Hint: the term super-market should alert you... ) I discovered I was eating the same things every single day, week after week. After joining the CSA I found out the true delights of Swiss chard, collard greens kale, mizuna, turnip greens, golden beets, kohlrabi greens, heirloom tomatoes in shades of red, green, yellow, orange, purple, and dark, four types of cucumbers including " lemon " cucumbers that are out of this world, Easter ovum radishes, royal turnips just to name a few new items in my diet.

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