Food Forethought OP-ED

FFT op-ed My defining moment with Food Forethought, (my ah ha) , when the written columns, , the radio commentary and hours promoting the FFT became personal occurred when I saw a letter I saw in a newspaper, written in response to one of my monthly columns. A farmer who sells direct at a roadside stand in California wrote to thank me for valuing his agricultural contributions. He wrote how much it pained him when organic- only proponents pulled off at his stand and put him down for his conventional farming methods, saying among other things that he was poisoning their children. He didn't understand why there needed to be such a dark line in the sand between organic and conventional and he posed the question that even if it was proven that organic was healthier ( and it hasn't been) could we then make the conclusion that non-organic farmers are bad? His letter made it crystal clear that FFT exists to give a validation to the ability of all American farmers to produce high quality food irregardless of whether they sell their produce at a farmers market or in a bulk shipping container earmarked for a third world country. I'm Susan Allen that's FFT.