Eating locally

[Crys]

Do you know where your food comes from? Do you know where the money you pay for that food ends up?

Food that has to be transported long distances slowly decays and loses it nutritive value. Mildly toxic -- in some cases carcinogenic -- preservatives are added to food to keep it "edible" (if you can call something that has more preservatives than nutrition "edible"). In other cases the preservative is sodium, which is necessary in small quantities but harmful at the levels you find in most canned food.

And when you buy food grown and processed somewhere outside your wider community, all that money you spend on the food goes to the place where it was grown and processed, while only a fraction of it stays in your community in the form of store revenue and store employee pay.

Post your efforts, thoughts, resources here, and if you know of a producer in your area, or a farmer's market or other local resource, go to your county forum and post about it! I have a few for Waukesha county that I need to get addresses and names for, but don't wait for me! Go ahead and post any that you know of!

[MrKhay]

I have varied food resources. The beef I use comes directly from the ranch. I grow as many vegetables as I can. I bake my own bread, and rolls, and make pizza dough from scratch.
I'm really concerned about the municipal tap water. I think it's crap. I use distilled water whenever I can. Seems to allow the flavors to come out on the foods, dough rises more evenly.
My mushroom log certainly does'nt like tap water. I made the mistake of letting someone take care of it while I was out of town for a week, and it was soaked in tap water, rather than distilled water. Tap Water killed the shitake spores.

[pk]

I read a strange report about bottled water a while back. If I can find it again I will post it. Anyways, it was all about how in some bottled water there is actually more germs etc. than in most tap water. Since I like bottled water I'm surprised I did not read more into it. Have you read anything like this?

[MrKhay]

Originally Posted by pk

I read a strange report about bottled water a while back. If I can find it again I will post it. Anyways, it was all about how in some bottled water there is actually more germs etc. than in most tap water. Since I like bottled water I'm surprised I did not read more into it. Have you read anything like this?

I've heard/read something on that subject, yes. I can believe there would be more life in bottled water, as tap water is bleached out with the various chemical treatments, and then has more chemicals added to make it "good", or "better" for you.

[pk]

I've heard/read something on that subject, yes. I can believe there would be more life in bottled water, as tap water is bleached out with the various chemical treatments, and then has more chemicals added to make it "good", or "better" for you.

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My mushroom log certainly does'nt like tap water. I made the mistake of letting someone take care of it while I was out of town for a week, and it was soaked in tap water, rather than distilled water. Tap Water killed the shitake spores.

OK, I'm going to go for it and ask.. since tap water is bleached out with the various chemical threatments, I can certainly see why your shitake spores did not respond to it. Then why do they claim that tap water is good for our bodies to drink it? Shouldn't it be bad for us?

I still have not found the report where it states that bottled water contains more germs etc. than tap water and actually is worse to drink. I know this is what I read. But now all I can find is the fact that it is actually better to drink bottled water than tap because tap has all the chemicals etc....

So which is it? Tap is good/bottle is bad? or Bottle is good/tap is bad?

One last question, what exactly is the difference of distilled water? Isn't that close to bottle water?

thanks,
pk