I like local produce: local pears, local wines, and ripe local tomatoes. I like buying from the folks who produced them. Maybe it can even put me in touch with the seasons. Those are good things, but buying local food does not imbue such commerce with environmental greenness. And buying organic, may be less green.Continue reading “Hello rainforest, it’s me, organic”
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Locally produced organically grown. Better for the environment?
Last week we looked at the locavore movement (called Not livin’ la vida locavore). My conclusion was that while local is tasty, food-miles are less than half the energy of storage and prep. Transport accounts for only 14 percent of the energy of a product in the food system. The locavore movement also touts organicallyContinue reading “Locally produced organically grown. Better for the environment?”
Rational Optimism versus locavorism
Over at Cafe Hayek, George Mason University professor Don Boudreaux posted a letter he wrote to the NY Times. David Sassoon of Harlemville, NY, is a locovore because, in his words, he’s “interested in restoring community through the act of eating, rather than swallowing the cold logic of global economics” (Letters, Aug. 28). So BoudreauxContinue reading “Rational Optimism versus locavorism”
Nullius in Verba 