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What is a localvore, one might ask?
Well, in the same vein that a carnivore is a being who eats meat, and a herbivore is one who eats plants, a localvore is a person who eats only locally-grown and produced food.
A localvore is a person committed to eating and learning about food grown within their food shed. Localvores recognise that there are multiple benefits of eating food grown close to home. The informal movement has sprouted in the past five years in response to a food supply that has become increasingly global and sprawling.
Image - Sunday Times - July 1, 2007
A Localvore is a person dedicated to eating food grown and produced locally. There are a lot of good reasons to eat locally grown and produced food.
- Less resources (primarily fossil fuels) are expended packaging and transporting local food.
- It supports the local economy - more money remains in our local community.
- It is healthier - processing and preservatives are less important since the food doesn't have to travel so far.
- It is safer and thus localvores are less susceptible to foodborn illnesses.
- It is more honest - honesty in terms of the food source (i.e. organic seeds vs. GMO seeds) and the growing/producing process. It has to be! We are all neighbours.
- If for no other reason - IT TASTES BETTER!
Localvores are people committed to eating and learning about foods grown within their local food shed. They may have varying levels of commitment, but Localvores recognise that there are multiple benefits of eating foods grown close to home.
How “local” is local?
Each of us may have a different definition of “local”.
For some, it may be what they and their neighbours grow themselves.
For others, it may be food grown within a certain radius of home
(25 miles? 100 miles? 250 miles?) or grown within their County or region.
‘ Eating Locally…creates less pollution and contributes less to catastrophic global climate change(global warming). When food is produced locally, fewer fossil fuels are used thereby positively impacting our health and the environment.
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