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| Did You Know...? The average American eats 72 frozen meals a year? | |
| Did You Know...? Within a week of harvest, natural sugars in fruits and vegetables turn to starches and produce loses its vitality - it takes 7-14 days for many items to get to our supermarkets? | |
| Did You Know...? Most of the average grocery bill pays for food packaging than to the farmers who produce the food? | |
| Did You Know...? Organic farming uses less water and emits about 60% less carbon into the atmosphere? | |
| Did You Know...? Of the 7,100 fruit varieties known to be in existence in 1800, only 1,000 varieties exist today? | |
| Did You Know...? Tomato skins of past were never thick - they have been bred to make the 2,000-mile commute to your table? | |
| Did You Know...? Shipping 1 pound of apples from a farm in Iowa to a market in Washington requires 30% more fuel and releases 30% more greenhouse gases than shipping those apples to a local market in Iowa? | |
| Did You Know...? Although bread is biodegradable, it takes years to decompose in a landfill, where light, water and bacteria are scarce? | |
| Did You Know...? Organic milk has more vitamins A and E than non-organic? | |
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Read more about Eating Local Food & Wine (February, 2007): How to Eat Like a Locavore Michael Pollan (2006): The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Barbara Kingsolver (2007): Animal, Vegatable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Paul Newman’s Next Act |
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