BEEF Daily  Food Movement Escalates As Traditional
Environmentalism Stalls   A new wave of consumers, focusing on
locally grown foods produced by small, family-owned farmers and
ranchers, replaces the traditional environmental movement.
Discuss this Blog Entry 3  on Mar 27, 2012  We've moved from
auctioning our beef to direct marketing - to locavores. Of
course, people in this neck of the woods have been doing this
since before it got popular. However, I now have people willing
to drive a couple of hours to pick up their beef, which is
different from our neighbors, friends, and family. And they find
us by website now, not by word of mouth.  What RIchards and
Walsh don't cover is that this isn't "food for the masses". It's
a select small percentage of the population which have a larger
portion of their disposable income available to spend on higher-
quality food. The larger producers and processors still will
handle the majority of the food supply.  And our national food
producers, both local and natio