Grassroots comments on bird flu economic impact

Hello concerned food eaters, producers and processors

This is an important 'food security' issue that affects us all! Does the factory farming of chickens provide fertile ground for a crisis? Does factory farming of all of our other food do the same? Is it time to re-localize our food systems?

Make your voice heard! This is not just a Fraser Valley problem!

Western Economic Diversification is funding three Fraser Valley Community Futures Development Corporations to collect quotes and present these concerns about the bird flu economic impact to WD.

Heidi Trautman is working at the Sto:lo Community Futures and would like to hear concerns from First Nations and Organic stakeholders. Do you eat organic? You are a stakeholder. This is how we can get the grassroots social and ecological concerns heard, to help balance the factory farm profit concerns that usually are heard above all else.

Please phone Heidi at 604-858-0009 or e-mail at trautman@dowco.com

Thanks

Frank Moreland
Project Coordinator
Small Scale Food Processor Association (SSFPA)

RR #1, Site 43, Comp 53
Fanny Bay, BC
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work 250-335-3001
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frank@ssfpa.net
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