Is the Onion a Fed Op? They seem to be calling us out quite hard here.
eat local isn’t even a coherent thing, fertilizer and and other ag shit can out-pollute shipping and economies of scale might mean that one large farm further away might be more efficient than a small closer farm and you have to do a bunch of complicated auditing that no individual has time or should be expected to know how to do.
Eating local is like a tiny bit of what a food system revolution needs to focus on. It is crucial to more just and environmentally conscious food production, but on its own it does nothing.
Now, defending food sovereignty, land rights, nutrition rights and traditional Foodways in the face of the flattening of diets and the harm that capitalism does through our diets is not bourgeois, and Michael Pollan and Alice Waters can take their elitist asses home for co-opting and creating this bullshit bastardization of the food justice movement.
Yeah like, probably we shouldn’t be shipping fruits from all around the world so that they’re always available, but there is a point where shipping food from far is still more efficient because of how much easier it is to grow in the far away place.
Most extreme example just because it shows it very clearly: They don’t grow food on the international space station. The amount of resources needed to do so are so absurd that it’s literally better to put food grown on earth in a rocket.
I try to get farmers market food when they’re around, but thats because the veggies are better than stuff that’s at the store that goes bad in a day
