Food
Organic strawberries were $5.99 the other day at our local grocer. $5.99! Their more toxic twins, the non-organic variety, were on sale for $3. Darn this pesticide-free living. I stood staring at that clamshell of bruised strawberries and fought with myself. The farmers market was still three days away. I really wanted those berries.
THE IDEA CAME in a dream. One night Kaytea Petro, co-founder of Neighbor-hood Fruit, dreamt she was searching on a Web site for public fruit trees throughout San Francisco.
Why 'voting with your fork' doesn't cut it -- Big Food will not slink away just because you shop at the farmers market.
Is it just me or are the lights at the grocery story brighter at midnight?
"The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you are eating, because if you knew you might not want to eat it " - Food, Inc.