A good post on Authenticity Hoax regarding the “local food” movement:
For all the revived fascination with a “local” economy, you don’t hear a lot of people pining for the return of the local abbatoir…
(From Foreign Policy): Influential food writers, advocates, and celebrity restaurant owners are repeating the mantra that “sustainable food” in the future must be organic, local, and slow. But guess what: Rural Africa already has such a system, and it doesn’t work. Few smallholder farmers in Africa use any synthetic chemicals, so their food is de facto organic. High transportation costs force them to purchase and sell almost all of their food locally. And food preparation is painfully slow. The result is nothing to celebrate: average income levels of only $1 a day and a one-in-three chance of being malnourished.
1 comment
real conservative says:
29 April 2010 at 21:59 (UTC -7 )
There is nothing wrong in the idea itself, in fact it makes good sense in general. But, put it in the hand of leftards and the trouble begins.