Awhile back, I marshaled some studies and and graphs and forth to argue that from a climate change perspective, the emphasis on local eating — on “locavorism” — was at best, a sideshow, and at worst, a misguided place to put priorities. Similarly, Dave Roberts, who has a whole lot more environmentalist cred than I do, writes that though “building regional, human-scale food networks has considerable merit…Eating local out of concern over carbon emissions is misguided. Food travel is not a big part of America’s collective emissions or most individuals’ emissions. And miles traveled is not always a reliable indicator of emissions — hothouse vegetables grown locally may be responsible for more emissions than traditionally grown veggies flown overseas.”
So there you have it.
