Rise in farm-to-fork buying has been fueled by the pandemic, experts say
Some people are taking a greater interest in where their food is coming from, and so as a result, some cattle farmers say they’re seeing an increased interest in their beef from customers who are buying directly from their farms
by James Chaarani – CBC News
Mark Reusser, the vice-president of Waterloo Federation of Agriculture and a director with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, points to the pandemic as the reason for this.
“COVID was a time, I guess, for reflection,” Reusser told CBC News. “We couldn’t do the things that we could normally do so people thought about food for one thing — where they get it, the quality of it, where it comes from, who produces it.”
“People are starting to become informed about grass fed and asking questions about raising animals”
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