The 100-mile Thanksgiving is a new concept developed by the sustainable agriculture groups including 100MileDiet.org, Local Harvest and EatLocalChallenge.com, to improve the usage of local ingredients in the Thanksgiving dinner.
Facts provided claims to project the benefits of eating fresh, contamination-free food, which presumably comes from produce grown with in 100-miles of establishment. Apparently, the benefits are speaking more of than just the consumer’s interest in being of help to the local farmer, increasing a sense of food ethics, convergence between diverse produce along with the local food choices and even food distribution.
Doubtless, 100-mile Thanksgiving is an attempt to boost the consumption of local ingredients, what it might change is the recurring food contamination and giving a nutrient-filled, preservative-free diet to the diners.
In an occasion like thanksgiving, which depends on the autumn’s bounty, the 100-mile purchase of produce would be the best bet to add flavor to creamed vegetables, tomato sauce and stuffed turkey. The American diners can have the pleasures of nutritious and flavorful eating once they decide to compromise with the luxuries of canned and shrink-wrapped produce.
