The challenge facing local food

This article extols the virtues of eating, buying, and serving locally produced food at a big business level. The concern is that the local food movement may get "watered down" as the organic movement has, by big business pressures to be more economically competitive. A large food service provider called, BAMCO has made local food a priority and has a farm to fork program. "BAMCO's Farm to Fork program, which connects small local producers to the cafe chefs, guarantees that an average 20 percent of sourcing for all meals must be local. "But that's not the upper limit," Ganzler(BAMCO's Director of communications) says. "Some accounts go up to 70 or 80 percent during harvest season." The article stays postive that the local food movement will be sustainable.