Members of the Canadian pork sector are asking for the public’s help in bailing out their industry — by buying local food. I write about their pleas in this week’s Urban Cowboy column in the Guelph Mercury, and in my Food For Thought column in the Woolwich Observer. One of the proponents is farmer and University of Guelph student Stewart Skinner, who provided me with the photo here.
Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.
