Originally posted by Traianvs
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And, 'exotic ingredients'? You mean tomatoes, lettuce, asparagus? Corn? Oranges, apples, pears? Sorry, I don't see why I should give up on eating these foods 10 months out of the year (or more, in some cases).
Finally... 'without the need of additional (chemical) fertilizer'. In part, I don't disagree with this - hence eating foods that are produced in areas that are good at producing them (chilean grapes, etc.). I just don't see how this is relevant to locavorism. Unless you are asking people, again, to eat an incredibly limited diet, and/or asking only a very small percentage of people to change to this diet (thus making this irrelevant), you couldn't feed most of our cities with only locally grown anything other than corn or wheat. The entire state of Illinois doesn't come close to providing enough food, outside of corn, to feed Chicago, and couldn't even if we tried, without chemical fertilizers etc. Hence we have the choice - use said fertilizers, or cheaply ship food in from CA/MX/etc.
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