Book review: Everything I want to do is illegal

August 26, 7:01 PMDenver Low Carb ExaminerLinda Duffy

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The local food movement is strong and growing. It would grow even faster if locally grown food wasn't often more expensive than items shipped across the country. I thought this was the case because small farmers did not have the purchasing power and infrastructure that a large agri-business would have. Turns out it is something different all together.

 "The high cost of local food has nothing to do with actual costs. These cost are almost always are a result of inappropriate regulations the preclude efficiencies...

The botton line is: most of what enters the marketplace is from large outfits. And these outfits constantly try to expand in order to spread the cost of regulations. The best way to eliminate competition in the marketplace is to stifle upstarts from ever seeing the light of day." - page 69

From the high cost of local food, to why you can't buy raw milk or how the government agencies that are in charge of food safety utterly fail to ensure that very thing, Joel Salatin spells it out bluntly and directly.

Not just "localvores" or foodies, but anyone who buys or eats food needs to arm themselves with the information in this book.