Local Eating, pt. 2

A quick follow-up to my earlier post today about buying and eating locally produced food. A recent post to the Worldchanging website as well as an Op-Ed piece to the NYTimes each point out that the recent outbreak of E. Coli in packaged spinach is brought on partly due to the hidden provenance of our food. Of course, locally produced food can have its problems. But not putting any thought or effort into figuring out where our food comes from will only lead to even more problems.