Go Read Time, This Week Organic vs. Local on the Front Page
Just a quick link now, more thoughts later:
I know I’ve been listening to too much npr because I started wondering: How much Middle Eastern oil did it take to get that California apple to me? Which farmer should I support—the one who rejected pesticides in California or the one who was, in some romantic sense, a neighbor? Most important, didn’t the apple’s taste suffer after the fruit was crated and refrigerated and jostled for thousands of miles?
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In the end I bought both apples. (They were both good, although the California one had a mealy bit, possibly from its journey.) It’s only recently that I had noticed more locally grown products in the supermarket, but when I got home I discovered that the organic-vs.-local debate has become one of the liveliest in the food world.
It’s great to see the memes in the blogosphere bubble up to mainstream magazines, especially validating when it hits the cover of Time.
The Ethicurian wonders: “Could a farmer be Person of the Year in 2007? A long shot, but we’d take that bet.”
Steve Balogh was thinking green at 8:12 AM on March 3, 2007
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