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Thanks for this topic!

Last month a friend of mine who lives in Vancouver, WA, and who's new to the idea of eating locally, wanted to cook her extended family a dinner of locally grown foods. She went to her "local" supermarket, and asked for foods grown within 50 miles. She was told that although some of the foods may have been grown within that radius, all were shipped first to a distribution center in L.A. and then returned to this area! Not exactly what she was hoping for . . .

Obviously, the system as it exists, isn't sustainable over the long haul (sorry for the pun). As many commenters have said, it is up to us, the consumers, to request locally grown foods, to frequent farmers' markets, and to join CSAs if we want knowingly to support Oregon agriculture. Otherwise, we're just taking our chances.

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