Growing local, being green, reducing global warmng

[Kelena]

After the dog food scare (when it looked as if every major dog food was poisoned by ingredients made and adulterated in China), I started buying local food only, through a Community Supported Agricultural food supplier. Very fresh, delicious vegetables. I would like to be able to grow at least some of my food, and, if on island, stop eating things that have to be shipped in. That would be hard, but it is important to be to support Hawaiian agriculture to the greatest extent possible. We can't turn all of Hawaii into a resort like Lanai. I found it ridiculous that the Federal Government has made it easier to important mangos, pineapples and papayas from the Phillipines and Indonesia. If necessary, we should set up huge, unfriendly trade barriers so we aren't shipping coals to New Castle, so to speak.

Free trade is not free. The price is the death of local agriculture, local flavor, and local agrarian economies.