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Backyard chickens appeared in increasing numbers in animal shelters

‘Eat Local’ Food Movement Doomed to Fail in Ontario and Beyond

on October 25th, 2019 by The Afro News
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The “local food” movement is mostly about connecting producers of expensive niche products with middle- and upper-middle class patrons Across Ontario, “local food” activists continue to promote the economic, social and environmental virtues of small local alternative farms, community gardens, backyard henhouses and older, less efficient and more expensive ways to produce food. In response,

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