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Tonight on the news they reported on two separate food illness outbreaks.  One is a Lysteria outbreak involving cantaloupes from Colorado and the other was yet another E. Coli outbreak involving ground beef.  Tyson Foods recalled more than 100,000 pounds of beef in Ohio because of the bacteria.  Yet more reasons to buy foods from your local foodshed.  Build relationships with farmers in your community and buy food from them.  When there is a relationship between  consumer and grower it sets up some accountability and ensures more integrity than food that comes from who knows where and travels hundreds if not thousands of miles changing hands many times before it gets to our table.  I'm setting up another page on this site to track all of the food related recalls and outbreaks to compile a list showing that bad track record of the military-industrial food complex that feeds most of us.  I think we all are outraged at such outbreaks while they are fresh in our minds, but the memories fade and we forget and go right back to buying our Cargill feedlot mush.  Anyway, check out the running list from time to time to remind yourself just how abnormal our food system is in this country.