10 Ways to Tell if Your Food Isn’t Local
Just about everyone I know is becoming more aware of the journey our food takes before it reaches our plates, and the disadvantages associated that travel: loss of flavor, loss of nutrition, excess consumption of gas.
Here’s how to tell if your food has traveled too far:
10. When your food looks tired from jet lag.
9. When your food has undergone so much reconstructive surgery you no longer recognize what it originally was.
8. When your food is wearing pesticide that’s no longer fashionable in your area.
7. When your food is sealed tighter than Fort Knox.
6. When your food shows up wearing flip-flops and it’s snowing outside.
5. When your food has a food entourage that can’t possibly all have been from the same neighborhood.
4. When your food has a maxed out gas credit card.
3. When your food went to the food-additive tanning booth to look attractive for you.
2. When your food knows more answers than you do in the geography section of Trivial Pursuit.
1. When your food’s passport has been stamped more times than yours.