Read here. Not often is the public blessed with a left-oriented, liberal/progressive/Democrat who can actually examine and analyze a given issue, then deliver a clear-headed, rational analysis. Wonders never cease! Stephen Budiansky delivers a remarkable short-analysis of the 'local-only' food craze that has primarily infected a fair number of elites, resulting in a rabid, crazed following by the pious "sustainability" religious order.
He pretty much decimates the local-only myths and makes the case that global food markets are much better for the environment, not only for the globe, but even locally - no Katie Couric or Brian Williams mush-brain gibberish exhibited in this piece.
Well worth the entire read:
"But what I really object to is the failure of local and organic advocates to confront the true implications of the agenda they are promoting — which would quite simply be devastating for the global environment were we ever compelled to do what an increasing number of its acolytes say we must do. And all I will say to those who so indignantly deny that locavores are "doctrinaire" (I never said they were "loco" or "rabid") is: look at virtually any of the gazillions of local food websites and books, with their lists of arbitrary rules, their admonitions to limit consumption to a 100-mile radius, their "ten steps to becoming a locavore" (as if it were a religion or self-help program), their grandiose claims for what this will all accomplish."
h/t: Bishop Hill