Editor, The News:
Re: A divide over farmland (The News, June 10).
While discussing whether farmland should be taken out of the Agricultural Land Reserve and used for other purposes, let’s call it ‘food land.’
We can’t eat farms, but the 80,000 of us who live in Maple Ridge eat food two or three times a day and we won’t always be able to rely on that food reaching us from far away places.
If we are to survive a major food disturbance caused by civil action, war or weather, we need secure local food sources.
We should be bringing more land into food production, not taking good ‘food land’ out.
Alan Woodland
Maple Ridge