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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>If the underlying objective of buying local is to procure the highest quality food, why not state that?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Otherwise, buying local and procuring the highest quality food do not necessarily correlate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>Some foods simply are not available locally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some local foods will be more costly than non-local foods.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some local foods will be lower quality than non-local counterparts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So if buying local is the stated objective, it does not always lead to the highest quality, cheapest, and most available food.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For example, where I live, buying local in January precludes buying any produce at all unless I want to pay a premium for produce grown indoors.</FONT></P><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <o:p></o:p></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>The article says that the new train will serve locally grown produce as an example of the intent to integrate “new green products and practices.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does not say anything about the best quality or best tasting food.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you look up "green practice of buying local," it says that buying local is <EM>green</EM> because it reduces the carbon footprint of food.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <o:p></o:p></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>The green aspect of buying local food may occasionally lead to the best quality food, but it more often calls for sacrifice by only consuming foods that are in season, so they can be bought locally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Buying local is not so much an indulgence in quality as is an obligation like losing weight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> But instead of losing weight, you are shrinking your carbon footprint in service of a larger cause. </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva></FONT> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>Here is a link that explains it well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Interestingly, buying local completely precludes the consumption of the little kiwi fruit because it has an unacceptably large carbon footprint: </FONT></P><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <o:p></o:p></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://green-energysaving.com/carbon-emissions/educe-carbon-footprint-buying-local/"><FONT face=verdana,geneva color=#800080>http://green-energysaving.com/carbon-emissions/educe-carbon-footprint-buying-local/</FONT></A></P><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <o:p></o:p></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>People who guide their food consumption by the admonition to buy locally are called “Locavores.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good locavores will limit their menu to food produced within 100 miles of themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So locavores eating on a moving train might have to abruptly stop eating mid-meal if the train takes them out of their range.</FONT></P> <P mce_keep="true"><FONT face=verdana,geneva></FONT> </P>
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