Ignatieff supports local food, talks like Sarah Palin
Ignatieff supports local food, talks like Sarah Palin
Michael Ignatieff has announced that a Liberal government would implement a policy to provide support for farmers and to help Canadians eat Canadian food. Poutine jokes aside, the plan would lay out millions of dollars to promote farmers’ markets and home-grown foods, to ensure imported items meet local standards and to help children from low-income families access healthy food. The policy would also look into ways to make farms more environmentally sustainable. “You bet farming matters, you bet rural Canada matters,” he said to media.
We “bet” that Ignatieff “bets” that this is how rural folk speak (has he been studying Sarah Palin?). What, no Tolstoy references?
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Michael Ignatieff has announced that a Liberal government would implement a policy to provide support for farmers and to help Canadians eat Canadian food. Poutine jokes aside, the plan would lay out millions of dollars to promote farmers’ markets and home-grown foods, to ensure imported items meet local standards and to help children from low-income families access healthy food. The policy would also look into ways to make farms more environmentally sustainable. “You bet farming matters, you bet rural Canada matters,” he said to media.
We “bet” that Ignatieff “bets” that this is how rural folk speak (has he been studying Sarah Palin?). What, no Tolstoy references?
• Michael Ignatieff pushes Eat Canadian plan [Toronto Star]){kind=link}
Good for Mr. Ignatieff for stepping up and not talking like a jackass, like Mr. Harper. He may sound folksy, but his message rings loud and true to a constituent base (farmers) who have an average age of 57 in our fair province and/or country. (Not my stat!)
Let’s spend more time talking about local food, supporting our farmers, less industrialized meat, produce, dairy and cheese, and teaching our children how to cook, bake, read nutrition labels, grocery shop, budget, and other life skills that our society is sorely lacking in.
While I support efforts to promote local food, I have yet to see locally grown coffee and citrus fruits. Could it be the leader of the coffee shop set hasn’t thought of that?