TORONTO — Proponents of the now famed 100-mile diet, and the city of Toronto’s slow-food devotees, may soon find it increasingly difficult to find locally sourced ingredients, thanks to what a recent Globe and Mail article calls an “urbanite invasion and a losing policy battle” in the two-million acre greenbelt surrounding the city.
According to the report, farmers in the area, particularly those raising livestock, have been forced out of the region over the course of the last several years due to a combination of encroaching urbanites unhappy with the realities of livestock farming and for what farmers see as a lack of government protection.
Toronto Greenbelt, slow food, farmers, 100-mile diet
No Food for Slow Food
TORONTO — Proponents of the now famed 100-mile diet, and the city of Toronto’s slow-food devotees, may soon find it increasingly difficult to find locally sourced ingredients, thanks to what a recent Globe and Mail article calls an “urbanite invasion and a losing policy battle” in the two-million acre greenbelt surrounding the city.
According to the report, farmers in the area, particularly those raising livestock, have been forced out of the region over the course of the last several years due to a combination of encroaching urbanites unhappy with the realities of livestock farming and for what farmers see as a lack of government protection.
GUELPH, ONT. — Earlier this week, the Ontario Cattleman’s Association (OCA) corralled more than 1,700 beef farmers for an unprecedented large-scale, province-wide telephone town...
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