Beneath the term locavore lies...confusion

This post and its subsequent comments underscore the many reasons why we might or might not choose to eat locally.

clipped from http://www.gardenrant.com/my_weblog/2008/03/beneath-the-ter.html I think there are a thousand great reasons to support local agriculture--you're preserving diversity, enjoying the aesthetic opportunity to buy what you don't grow yourself (or don't grow enough of) from farmers' markets, CSAs, or farm stands, and giving your hard-earned dollars to your neighbors as opposed to faceless megacorporations, aka agribiz, just to name three. Giving agriculture a human face and making it personal is what eating locally is really all about. To reduce the idea of making food choices to a carbon-emissions equation is appalling to me--like telling people to go to McDonald's rather than cooking their own food. No, thanks. I'll keep growing as much as I can and buying as much of the rest locally as I can, because I believe with Wendell Berry that having--or creating--a sense of place is the best hope we have of having a future in a healthy world.