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We face a stark choice: more superstores or more local food, shops and jobs linking people with the places and landscapes where we live. The relentless spread of superstores offers a degree of convenience but at the cost of:

• Loss of choice as it becomes harder to buy local foods
• Loss of jobs as local businesses close
• Loss of character, as once distinctive lively town centres  become 'clone towns'
• Loss of landscape when traditional farming practices are discontinued
• Increase in 'food miles', the distance travelled by food from source to our plates

CPRE Shropshire supports sustainable local foods and is a member of the Making Local Food Work project.

Oswestry Farmers Market April 2010

January 2010

CPRE launches local food project:

• CPRE local food project comes to Shrewsbury

Further Information

• 7 January 2010. "Campaigners are critical of food strategy". Katy Anderson criticises the government's food strategy for not giving enough importance to local food (Shropshire Star)
• Shropshire Hills: Buy Local
• Local to Ludlow
• Friends of Local Foods (Farma)
• NFU: Support your local food producers!
• More on local food from CPRE
• Making Local Food Work: to 'reconnect people and land through local food ­ increasing access to fresh, healthy, local food with clear, traceable origins'
• Case study of East Suffolk, where refusal of planning permission for a new superstore has led to an increase in local shops (PDF file)
• Sustainweb (the alliance for better food and farming).