The "WHY" is as important as the "What".
Some have said that sustainability is "doing well by doing good." Perhaps this is a good start.
But sustainability is much more than doing well or well enough. It's all about performing!
Why Locally Grown?
People worldwide are rediscovering the benefits of buying local food.
It is fresher than anything in the supermarket and that means it is tastier and more nutritious.
It is also good for your local economy--buying directly from family farmers helps them stay in business.
For copying and distributing.
In a world of growing financial problems.
Less jobs and opportunities.
Fewer "money" choices.
Increased personal stress.
Decreased purchasing power.
Less local business choices.
Diminishing local food production.
Diminishing local producers.
Increased corporate take-overs.
One company has stepped up to the challenge
and is offering a much healthier, positive alternative.
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Less jobs and opportunities.
Fewer "money" choices.
Increased personal stress.
Decreased purchasing power.
Less local business choices.
Diminishing local food production.
Diminishing local producers.
Increased corporate take-overs.
One company has stepped up to the challenge
and is offering a much healthier, positive alternative.
MicroSTAR.Tv
With insecurities surrounding people on a global basis.
People are becoming increasingly pro-active in the future of:
Their personal lives,
Their families,
Their earnings,
Their communities,
Their local businesses.
These are the answers to the "WHY".
Check your wallet, it could be doing more for your future.
Compete or Cooperate
Question. Which do you believe is healthier?
Is it better to co-operate or to compete?
The historical evidence proves that choosing
to compete simply does not work for most.
Working together for similar goals via co-operation is more
efficient, healthier and accomplishes the goal sooner.
Is it better to co-operate or to compete?
The historical evidence proves that choosing
to compete simply does not work for most.
Working together for similar goals via co-operation is more
efficient, healthier and accomplishes the goal sooner.
Tired Of Competing? You don't have to in order to do well.
Some information to consider, offered by other orgs.
Why support locally owned businesses?
By newrules.org
Local Character and Prosperity
In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind
businesses and distinctive character have an economic advantage.
Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers,
linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.
Local Decision-Making
Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people
who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share
of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the whole community.
Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors,
provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels North America's economic innovation and prosperity, and serves
as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class.
Public Benefits and Costs
Local stores require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use
of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.
Environmental Sustainability
Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable city/town centers-which in turn are
essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
Competition
A marketplace of tens or thousands of small businesses is the best way
to ensure innovation and lower prices over the long-term.
Product Diversity
A multitude of small and medium businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their
own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
Who is CHFA
The Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) is Canada's largest association representing Natural Health Products supply chain:
Today, our members are extremely concerned about the future of our industry. And, if we're concerned, our customers should be too!
We believe your right as a Canadian consumer to choose from the best possible variety of high quality, safe and effective health care products is being threatened.
We believe Canadians should have access to NHPs as contemplated in the 53 recommendations of the Federal Government's Standing Committee on Health's report on NHPs: Natural Health Products:
We believe Canadians need informed choices - not limited choices.
- Growers
- Manufacturers
- Importers
- Distributors
- Retailers
- Health Practitioners
- Industry Consultants
- Over 25,000 people are employed from coast-to-coast-to-coast
- We are devoted to providing high quality, safe and effective products
- We are committed to you and your family - helping you to stay healthy...Your Health. Your Choice. Your Right.
Today, our members are extremely concerned about the future of our industry. And, if we're concerned, our customers should be too!
We believe your right as a Canadian consumer to choose from the best possible variety of high quality, safe and effective health care products is being threatened.
We believe Canadians should have access to NHPs as contemplated in the 53 recommendations of the Federal Government's Standing Committee on Health's report on NHPs: Natural Health Products:
We believe Canadians need informed choices - not limited choices.
"Men (and women) are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone
is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action". -- Dorothy Day
is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action". -- Dorothy Day
100% Canadian Owned and Operated