Healthy Food Ideas » eat local http://www.simplifymyfoodchoices.com/healthyideas how to make better choices when shopping and preparing food Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:30:32 +0000 en hourly 1 Free Screening of Food, Inc. The Movie in Minnesota http://www.simplifymyfoodchoices.com/healthyideas/2010/03/free-screening-of-food-inc-the-movie-in-minnesota/ http://www.simplifymyfoodchoices.com/healthyideas/2010/03/free-screening-of-food-inc-the-movie-in-minnesota/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:43:26 +0000 admin http://www.simplifymyfoodchoices.com/healthyideas/?p=126 Valley Natural Foods in Burnsville, MN is sponsoring a free screening of Food, Inc. with a food panel discussion directly afterwards. The event will start at 6pm and be held at the School of Environmental Studies, 12155 Johnny Cake Road, Apple Valley, MN 55124. This event is free and before the movie fair trade coffee will be served. If you have been wondering where your food is coming from you need to see this movie.

 The panel directly after the screening of the movie includes Atina Diffley of Gardens of Eagan, Jeff Jirik organic vegetable farmer and cheesemaker,  Byron Korus Chef owner and John Peterson from Ferndale Market turkey farm, Pat Schoenecker garden advocate and Larry Schultz organic farmer from Owatonna, MN.

For further information contact Charli Mills 952-891-1212 x239

Valley Natural Foods, Burnsville, MN

]]> http://www.simplifymyfoodchoices.com/healthyideas/2010/03/free-screening-of-food-inc-the-movie-in-minnesota/feed/ 0 Big Box Retailers Positioning to Crush Local Health Stores http://www.simplifymyfoodchoices.com/healthyideas/2009/03/big-box-retailers-positioning-to-crush-local-health-stores/ http://www.simplifymyfoodchoices.com/healthyideas/2009/03/big-box-retailers-positioning-to-crush-local-health-stores/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:01:49 +0000 canman http://simplifymyfoodchoices.com/healthyideas/?p=33 Big box retailers are positioning themselves to crush local natural and co-op food stores with “natural” and “organic” foods that are not environmentally friendly, that disrupt local economies, and that have the potential to stress many thousands of local farmers or even put them out of business.

According to the USDA, since 1960 more than 1.5 million acres of farmland is converted to nonagricultural use every year.

Read more in our article: Eat Local Does Not Mean Big Box Retailers

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