The Daily Orange

National law forces food companies to label products with country of origin

Abstract:
Walking through the aisles of the local P&C grocery store, customers find stacks of fresh fruits and vegetables, a plethora of packaged meat and countless bags and containers of nuts. Each food item has a label on it with its country of origin.

This is the result of a new law passed Sept....

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Glenda Neff

posted 10/17/08 @ 11:43 AM EST

A clarification is needed especially about bananas - we don't grow any locally! So buying bananas from Syracuse Banana, a local distributor, doesn't tell you where the bananas were grown.

I hope the author of the article realizes this, but the sentences as written would lead one to think that Syracuse Banana could buy locally-grown bananas!

Students can ask SU dining services buyer to work with Syracuse Banana and other distributors to get apples & cider, potatoes, onions, squash, cabbage, eggs and all dairy (milk, ice cream, yogurt, butter) from New York farms.

Ask that they post in the dining hall which menu items are from New York.
An idea - a student project can create signage with photos and info from New York farms.

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