Eating Only Local?
The “Localvore” movement - based on the lifestyle/challenge/whatever-you-want-to-call-it of choosing to eat only local products - has taken an interesting, in some ways inspiring, guiding principle to the extreme. Extremes aren’t always bad, but I won’t be cutting all of the imports from my diet any time soon. If you want to know why, Amy, of the blog Cooking with Amy, has perfectly nailed my objections in her recent post on the subject.
CZ said,
August 2, 2005 @ 8:40 am
I completely agree with her assessment. I’ve sometimes felt the same way about the organic movement - that it’s elitist. I applaud efforts to bring gardens to the ghetto and certainly I think the movement didn’t *start* out as being only for the rich, but sometimes I feel like “organic” is yet another badge for Berkeley supermoms. But anyway, I buy organic when it tastes better.
Teich.Net :: All In » Eating Uber-Local said,
May 1, 2006 @ 10:06 pm
[...] The idea that we should eat more locally produced foods isn’t new: I have written about it here, as has Pim, and plenty of others too. The Eat Local concept is good, though not always practical. [...]