[Tim Walsh]

Eating locally/organic isn't exactly easy here in usualtown, USA. Since my wife's food allergies we've been extremely sensitive on how much food costs and what's in it. It would NOT be easy to feed a family on organic/non-processed foods. As it is I'm cooking 6+ dinners a week on average + all of her lunches.(granted I eat pretty crapily for breakfast and lunch, she has just a glass of milk for breakfast). If I had to switch over to local/organic our food bill would quadruple which doesn't even count the increased prep time . As it is when we cut out corn, soy and wheat our food bill doubled.

Take this test: Go to your local supermarket(publix, food lion, etc) and price out a dozen eggs, a gallon of milk, a lb of butter, half a dozen peppers and a loaf of bread. Now go to your local organic market(fresh market, whole paycheck.. I mean whole foods, etc) for the same items. Doubled in price, easily. I work at a university, and if I wasn't a DINK(dual income, no kids) with a good job it would be completely impossible to eat that way, completely.

I know that organic/local is the ideal, but for the majority of america, it's just not possible.