Thanksgiving brings a focus to local food

The Salt Lake Tribune has a series of articles on local and organic food in today's edition:

Buying from local farm takes root in Utah

From farm to feast: How healthful is your meal? How local? How safe?

Avoid the 'Dirty Dozen,' buy organic

It's incredibly vindicating to see these ideas becoming so mainstream. The e coli scare this summer may have been the tipping point, but better that than a more comprehensive disruption in supply from any of a number of other causes.

Supporting local food production should be a no-brainer for our legislators as well; if we should be subsidizing anything, it should be local food systems.