Well, define "local."
Eating local is an excellent way to ensure your consumer choices help the planet, while supporting farmers in -- or close to -- your community. Farmers' markets are an excellent source of local produce. But things get trickier once you move into the packaged or processed foods aisle at the supermarket. That's because "product of Canada" doesn't necessarily mean what it seems to. The folks at CBC's Marketplace looked more deeply at that definition. You need to know what they discovered.
Dave Dowling
well, I learned something new today, a product only has to be 51% canadian to have that product of Canada label.
those Labels need to be more informative, perhaps they should have those percentages on them.
An informed consumer can be a more environmentally friendly consumer