An open letter to Premier McGuinty;

Did you have an opportunity to attend ‘Foodstock’ in Honeywood, Ontario this past weekend?

If you attended this event, you would know what a wonderful job the organizers did. You would have tasted a fantastic variety of foods prepared and donated by over 80 experienced chefs, and you would have witnessed an estimated 28,000 people celebrating our food, land, and water.

The organizers also planned this event with zero waste in mind. People were asked to bring their own plates, cups, and cutlery. The very small amount of waste generated at this large public event is a success story in itself.

‘Foodstock’ was organized to bring awareness about the proposed mega quarry, where a foreign company plans to dig, not potatoes, but a huge quarry, while diverting 600 million litres of clean drinking water every single day.

A project of this magnitude would damage some of the best food growing agriculture land in Canada, alter our water source, and harm communities across central Ontario.

Foodstock organizers deserve thanks for bringing Ontarians together to celebrate local food, and to join forces and take action to protect our land and water.

Please join the people of Ontario and speak out against this mega quarry.

K. Clune