Excellent Argument Against Locavorism

[symkha]

Hey everyone,
I was listening to www.animalvoices.ca's selections from a recent conference in Canada. One of the speakers< Vasile Stanescu, made a wonderful argument against locavorism. He said some things I've thought intuitively but haven't really bothered to look into or write down

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[brighidh]

True dat...

I lived close enough to drive to him in 2009 before attempting/going veg*n and we were considering his meat, but it was still almost 2 hours which I thought ridiculous. Apparently he does do drops in surrounding towns and meat is trucked to those points by order only, I think, so I dunno ... he also said veganism/vegetarianism is a 'religion' and folks are fanatical about it, so I don't know .....

[symkha]

oh he's a creep for sure. He kills animals and thinks he's doing everyone, particularly the animals, a great service.

A friend of mine also told me that Salatin's into gender conformity big time, which I'm not really surprised about. I need to ask her where she saw that because I searched it and couldn't find it.

[symkha]

--oh, uh, duh, he Stanescu mentions it in the article as well

[cravereality]

[symkha]

From the article I linked to:

<1>Instead, locavores almost universally rely upon the “common sense" logic that since transportation harms the environment, the further a commodity must be transported, the more harmful it must be to the ecosystem. However, recent studies have brought this common sense wisdom into question. For example, a study conducted at Lincoln University in New Zealand shows that the way apples, lamb, and dairy items are produced in New Zealand makes them more energy-efficient to buy in the U.K. than those same products grown on British soil. The study concludes:

Food miles are a very simplistic concept relating to the distance food travels as a measure of its impact on the environment. As a concept, food miles has gained some traction with the popular press and certain groups overseas. However, this debate which only includes the distance food travels is spurious as it does not consider total energy use especially in the production of the product.[6]

[pearlmaster8]

A lot of this reads to me like someone nitpicking at unavoidable hypocracies in veganism like using computers, driving in cars, using products that have glue in them, etc

[symkha]

I doubt you read the same article that I did

[pearlmaster8]

okay, I just read your quotes not the whole article (I will read the whole thing when I get some time, I read some brief passages and really like it