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News flash: Don't drive your SUV to the farmers market
And other revelations from the latest big-media expose of local food |
Tom Philpott |
11 Dec 2007 |
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| About a year ago, The Economist ran a big article purporting to show that eating locally is actually worse for the environment than typical supermarket fare. I debunked the article here. About six months later, the NYT op-ed page ran a piece making similar arguments. And I responded again. In both of these pieces, the authors discovered that in a built environment rigged to grow food in mass quantities, process it in huge factories, and haul it over vast distance ... |
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| Topics: farmers markets, local food, food, cars (all these topics) |
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