From the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun:
A Mt. Pleasant man traveled to Italy for a summit of global food growers and returned with a passion to support local food growers.
Martin Curry, 38, a freelance writer and photographer, attended the Terra Madre (Earth Mother) in Turin, Italy in October.
The conference was a session of the International Food Growers of the World, where the issue of “seed slavery” was brought to light by indigenous food growing communities who are battling corporate monopolies on seed ownership.
“It was an opportunity to learn about the politics of food production,” Curry said. “It was quite an experience.
“A majority of the food, with very few exceptions, that ends up on our tables traveled more than a thousand miles to get there. And with the issues that we’ve been having with energy and with truckers because diesel fuel has gone too high. It’s a basic question of distribution,” he said.
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