I think worshiping local foods is stupid; our ancestors were all locovores, of necessity (unless you call hauling a mammoth carcass miles an import). Their diet generally sucked.
But I’m amused to see how rife with fraud the movement is.
6 thoughts on “Locovorism”
Comments are closed.
When I was a kid I managed a pizza restaurant in Phoenix, part of a 21 store chain, and we purchased once a week from Sysco delivered out of California. The price was high and the quality wasn’t but the main office required us to buy from them unless we ran out of something before the weekly delivery. So I made sure I ‘ran out’ of stuff the day before an order was due and bought locally from Star Cheese which had better product at a lower cost. Star Cheese wasn’t just a cheese provider. They sold cases of everything I needed except produce which I got from locals (often by owners delivered in the truck of their cars!)
While my store made money the chain ended up giving 3 stores to Sysco to pay their bills. Star Cheese was run by New Yorkers but the other guys acted like mobsters.
If I had grown up with a locally sourced diet, my meals would have consisted of corn and beets.
I grew up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Without “imports” my diet would have been milk, potatoes and acorns.
I only eat food produced locally. The beef I eat was raised on the cow’s own home ranch, right where the calf grew up. The vegetables come from the farmer’s own vegetable farm. And these are some of the best farms and ranches in the world. So then I pay a company to ship these wonderful, locally grown products to my state so I can eat them, perhaps followed by a whisky made nearby from barley, corn, and rye grown locally in Kansas and Iowa.
Sometimes I eschew whisky and drink Icelandia vodka, the vodka of Iceland that’s popular around the world, made in Iceland from grain from those vast, rolling Icelandic wheat fields. Okay, the wheat comes from Kansas, but the water comes from Iceland, and it’s important that those H2O molecules are locally sourced in Iceland because their water molecules are so much fresher than our water molecules.
If I only ate food produced locally, I wouldn’t be able to get fresh fruit during the winter.
There’s some cows down the road from me. As long as I got my steak I’m good.