TruthOut: A reason to support local foods
Posted By Brandon Reid On September 14, 2009 @ 3:27 pm In Happening Now | No Comments
Can a Farm State Feed Itself?
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Brooke Jarvis, YES! Magazine: “Illinois, home to 76,000 farms and more than 950 food manufacturing companies, is a solidly agricultural state in the heart of America’s bread basket. Fully 80 percent of it is farmland. But, of all the food eaten in Illinois, only four percent is actually grown there.”
Article printed from The Rock River Times: http://rockrivertimes.com
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