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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: Closing the Distance to Food!
Description: Allen Moy, Executive Director, Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association
How can city dwellers close the distance to their food?Â
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We begin with Michael Olson’s Second Law of the Food Chain:  The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in our food.
If, as is said, the average food in the United States travels 1,500 miles from where it is grown to where it is eaten, then we city people simply do not have much control over what is in our food.
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