Cooking, Food & Wine

time when food safety solutions from top to bottom in sight, some urban middle class began to spontaneously looking for assured food, this "money vote" initiative, to promote social change?

3 o'clock in the morning, liuzhou, Guangxi countryside farmer Wu Bo, had to get up in preparation for his technique of dried bean milk cream. Sun: a good day, aired late Miss Sunrise may not work. Last batch of dried bean milk cream in the end, city people you want to do on new year's Eve, nor careless.

10 o'clock in the morning, lives in a retirement community in Beijing Liu Jianhua, counting this year, its expenditure on buildings rented vegetable plot, rent to $ 300 a year, fertilizer around $ 100, seed tool around $ 50, add up to cost of about $ 500. His harvest of vegetables, add up to at least $ 1000 worth, was quite meet.

3 o'clock in the afternoon. Because it is a Friday, "housewife group buy organic life" one of the initiators of Liu Yu Jing are very busy in Beijing huilongguan in a small house in the community, they sent to farms with several organizers of fresh vegetables, eggs, milk, meat, in accordance with the category, the order, coming after 3 o'clock in the afternoon hundreds of mothers taking food.

5 o'clock in the afternoon. Pearl River Delta region a hardware factory staff before early beam-element rule in Office through a notice on the internal network, see units have special farm trays come to sell, take advantage of the new year before to buy some fresh vegetables, exists.

7 o'clock in the evening. Guangzhou Cheng Xu carrying daily necessaries plus instant noodles foods such as chocolate by Guangzhou-Kowloon through train back home, this is he going to Hong Kong for the second time that month. Beginning in 2007, Cheng Xu almost once every two weeks would have gone to Hong Kong, to buy food and medicine, to buy daily necessities.

in order to eat not pesticide on chemical fertilizers and assured, health food, the Boer wants to live better city core sectors would have moved up. Some of them alone, their dishes chicken self-sufficiency; some help Alliance, with assured farms or farmers pair engage in special monopoly.

when food safety issues cannot be resolved by means of a top down for a moment when this table since under self-help action although there were "increasing personal costs a waste of social resources" account, but nonetheless is a response to the deteriorating food security situation a positive force.

also, Taiwan's experience also allows us give birth to hope: once the food security baseline of mental events across the population, this set off from the salt of the Earth strata of self-help action, it is possible to create nonprofit oversight mechanisms appear.

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