be more important than money.

Where is our food safety at these days, have you thought about how you food is handled before it arrives at your grocery store? Is it being screened, checked for you? In most cases probably not. If it is not being gassed for spiders and creepy crawleys-imported food often arrives here and delivered to the grocery store in a few days.

It annoys me to see fruit from South Africa on our shelves when we have issues with Ebola going on in the same country. It annoys me when we keep ignoring our local food, our local farmers and the importance that we stop consuming farmland for housing projects that are completely unnecessary.

Farmland should remain farmland, and the developer should develop on land that is not. Do you know why they use farmland for new housing?  Because is costs less money to develop, and is more profitable to the developer. Why should they have to work so hard to remove boulders, and alter that land for homes that we do  not need. With such a small population here in Canada, who is going to buy the new houses? When is enough enough?

Midhurst...have you heard of this place? Well have a read and you will get to know Midhurst and why this town is so important….MORE MEGA DEVELOPMENT!

Less farmland for food.

We cannot rely on imported food anymore. Globalizing is not important anymore. Localizing is.

Localizing creates local jobs, keeping our farmland as farms protects our local food system that we need so desperately today. We need to be more proactive and far less reactive.

We need help with all of our small towns that are quickly fading away, why build and invest in only one place? There is no balance, no common sense. That ideology has clearly been flushed down the white throne many years ago.

Let’s try to change the course we are on to one that makes sense for everyone.

Stacey Fokas

Live Local*Eat Local*Support Local

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