Tom Philpott landed a short essay in The New York Times on the dearth of local and regional food-processing infrastructure.

“f we want to see local and regional food systems expand beyond niche status—and make the bounty of the farmers market available to more than just a relative few—then we need to demand that the federal government crack down on the meat and dairy industries’ shady environmental and labor practices. And we need a serious program to reinvest in the infrastructure that has been so cavalierly dismantled—perhaps through a federal grant program funded by fines against offending corporate giants.”

(via Grist)