Locally-grown food is healthier.

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Poor News Network
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"If you wanted to create global pandemics, you'd build as many of these factory farms as possible. That's why the development of swine flu isn't a surprise to those in the public health community. In 2003, the American Public Health Association - the oldest and largest in world - called for a moratorium of factory farming because they saw something like this would happen. It may take something as serious as a pandemic to make us realize the real cost of factory farming."
~Dr. Michael Greger, Humane Society of the U.S.
organicconsumers.org/articles/article_17792.cfm