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But if the items are shipped from as far away as Mexico or Canada to get to your grocer, are the fumes the vehicles that transport the products healthy for the environment? From local egg producers to farmer's markets, the Wittenberg Green Guide points to ways to help the environment by reducing the demand for long-haul shipments and helps the local economy by encouraging buying local. The second move was a combination of projects, including the green guide, creating an indigenous plant...

Local farmers and other food producers offer consumers a wide variety of fresh produce, flowers, grass-fed and free-range meats, honey, syrups, pancake mixes, apple cider, dairy products and more. Osofsky also said consumers who buy local products know where their foods are coming from and even can come to the farm to see them being produced. WANT farm-fresh produce picked the same day you buy it or grass-fed meats that haven't spent time being shipped from distant locales? Slater said his...

CSU work boosts beef industry Research persuades Egypt to change way it handles imports BY LAURA BAILEY LauraBailey@Coloradoan.com Liver might not be what's for dinner in the United States, but it's a popular item in Egypt, and researchers at Colorado State University have helped it stay that way. CSU work boosts beef industry Research persuades Egypt to change way it handles imports BY LAURA BAILEY LauraBailey@Coloradoan.com Liver might not be what's for dinner in the United States, but...

Regular dairy consumption is a fairly recent development, maybe the last 5,000 years or so, and then mostly in northern latitudes where the climate is right, and where industrialized nations have created both a huge dairy industry and the means to produce, preserve and distribute the products before they go bad. Cows, pigs as big as sofas, chickens (broilers and egg-layers), goats, sheep, and much, much more, come here to live out their natural lifespans in peace. But humans, it...