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Source: Mercola
Related article: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/02/15/good-food-movement.aspx Natural health expert and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola interviews Jim Slama about Good Food Movement, and environmental sustainability.
A reliable source of fresh locally grown food is essential if you want to stay healthy. Jim Slama has promoted environmental sustainability for more than two decades, and his organization, Family Farmed, is a major supporter and proponent of the Good Food Movement.
For many years, he published a natural living magazine called Conscious Choice, which had a circulation of about 50,000 copies. Eventually, the media recession, followed by the Great Recession, killed the magazine.
In the midst of doing Conscious Choice, Jim reported on an incinerator in Chicago1 that was putting out 150,000 pounds of lead per year into the local environment.
Appalled, he got together with friends in the advertising industry, and created an ad campaign featuring the story of two kids who lived near the facility. “Lo and behold, we shut it down within six months,” he says. “It was very exciting…”