Local, Natural, Organic, Ethical
WHY LOCAL?
Support local Canadian farmers and manufacturers because:
- From a nutritional perspective, local food is more nutritious since it is actually picked when it’s ripe, not green.
- From a chemical perspective, less fungicides and preservatives need to be used when food travels for shorter durations.
- From a global warming perspective, local food is the most environmentally friendly since less fuel is used to transport it.
- From a traffic perspective, it would decrease the number of transcontinental traveling trucks on our highways.
- From an economical perspective, it keeps Canadian jobs in Canada.
- From a taxpayer’s perspective, less tax money will be used on healthcare if people will eat healthier food beginning in childhood.
WHY ETHICAL?
Factory farmed animals are given drugs or genetically altered to grow faster or produce more milk (legal in US) or eggs, and often the animal’s legs or other body parts are broken or injured due to the inability to sustain this unnatural growth . Severe overcrowding and confinement to extremely small spaces cause these animals great pain and crippling.
Chickens and turkeys have their beaks burned off, cows have their horns cut off or burned off, female pigs are kept in metal crates so small that they can barely turn around, etc.
These animals are deprived of maternal love, space, exercise or stimulation and as expected, often go insane. What would happen to a human raised under such conditions?
WHY NATURAL?
The feed of factory farmed animals is a problem onto itself. The feed can include added trans fats, the leftover grease from fast food restaurants, hormones, routine antibiotics, and cannibalism may be practiced or other weird and unnatural methods may be used, such as chicken being fed cow remains, etc.
This unhealthy, unnatural feed in turn affects the health of the humans who consume the animals that were fed such a diet.