Today, I’d like to test out a new idea: an open thread. What is an open thread? It’s your chance to comment on and/or discuss any topic you choose.
If you have any questions you’ve been wanting to ask or ideas ripe for sharing, now is your perfect chance to do so.
If nothing is coming to mind already, let’s think about local food vs. most efficient use of resources dilemma. Here are a couple articles my mom and I were emailing back and forth to each other this morning that have got me second guessing the idea that local food is better (or at least questioning in what ways it is better):
- Food and Fuel from Wooly Pigs
- The Locavore Myth from Forbes
I think I’m fortunate that I live in California because farming is actually a pretty big business here and I’ve noticed that almost all the fruits, vegetables, and dairy I buy at the grocery store are produced within my state and some of that (eggs in particular) come from no farther than what I can buy at the farmers market.
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I wrote about the locavore myth on The Conscious Shopper a year ago in Eat Conscious and Local (especially in the comments to that post). Then I followed up with Eat Conscious and Local, Part 2 in response to some of the comments on the first post.
Actually, I think it’s very important to support local farms, for reasons I outline in the second post and not for the “food miles” reason. But I also think its silly to get caught up in the 100-mile diet goal in exclusion of lots of other good and healthy ways to eat – such as choosing organic and fair trade. It’s more important to eat consciously than to eat locally.
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