Consuming locally grown organic food is obviously far better for the environment than consuming non-organic and/or non-locally grown food, but this is small potatoes compared to the corrupt farm bill that Pelosi just championed, which will cause the continued use of massive amounts of planet-destroying pesticides and will do nothing to encourage buying of local foods.

Let's keep our eyes on the ball and not get distracted by this type of political grandstanding or self-serving action.  Legislation that can result in big changes, like the farm bill, is far more important than taking a small, individual action.  Pelosi should be held accountable for the passage of yet another horrible farm bill, not lauded for providing good food for herself and her friends and colleagues.

I just found out from my mother that when she married in 1951 and moved from her family's home (where they grew almost all their own food) to an apartment in the city of Lynn, MA, she could not find fresh parsley in the stores. Store employees told her that it was a fancy
"foreign food" that was not carried (she found it dried & used that instead though the taste is not the same). Sort of like Boehner's comment...in 1951 fresh parsley was not "real food" in Massachusetts.

cmello