Reuters: Food movement encourages buying local

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For the last two years, California bookstore manager Sage Van Wing has helped organize the Eat Local Challenge, where, for one month, participants only buy food produced within 100 miles of their homes.

She is one of many people across the United States who are joining the burgeoning local food movement.

In 2005, 400 people signed up on the project’s Web site, she said. This May, more than 1,000 took part.

“I think it’s becoming more and more obvious that if there’s no longer a cheap source of oil, then a lot of things need to change in this country,” Van Wing said. “And one of the things that needs to change is the food distribution system — the way food is grown and the way food is distributed.”
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