You Say You Want A Revolution? Organic Consumers and the Local Farmers They Support Are Forcing A Paradigm Shift in the Way Our Food Is Produced and Consumed.

Consumers are fed up with the way their food is produced and distributed.  Consumers and the small farmers they support are forcing the food industry to re-think what it means to produce and consume ÒsafeÓ food.  Several models exist that promotes this new food system yet legal hurdles remain.  Those legal hurdles are high and strong yet they are weakening under this new system.  Consumers involved with rBGH-free milk, raw milk, CSAÕs, buyerÕs clubs, raw nuts, and other food stuffs have created innovative arrangements to prohibit government from circumventing the inalienable right to produce and consume the food of oneÕs choice.  More people are having access to locally, sustainably produced nutrient dense food, organic and beyond organic, that does not rely on the industrialized, centralized, monopolistic, corporate agriculture model that is favored by government.  Government is also exhibiting signs of recognizing the advantages of this new (yet in some sense very old) way to produce food.