Eat Local, Degrade the Environment
3rd July 2012
“The Locavore’s Dilemma” argues that the benefits of eating local have been vastly overstated by food activists and its serious detriments swept under the rug. The tone is distinctly upbeat, no doubt because being a gleeful debunker is fun but also because the two authors are resolutely cheerful about the world’s food situation.
Invincible ignorance of economics in service of a political/social agenda is all the rage these days; ‘locovores’ are merely the latest hippy-dippy nonsense.