Eating local

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For someone turning to the whole food, whole earth, locavore lifestyle, I still have some glaring "opportunities for growth," which is to say practices that could be a lot truer to my talk. (I've also heard those expressed as AFGOs: "another f'ing growth opportunity.") I know that, like all of us, I'm a work in progress, but still, I'm reminded of the quite irreverent-but-true epithet my college buds used to toss: "Let's see you do it, then spout off."

What brings me to this topic was my morning apple, a Macintosh from Pennsylvania. Macs are OK, but I much prefer Pink Ladys, followed by Granny Smiths, and that's what I've been buying forever. This week, however, I finally woke up to, and accepted, the fact that these apples, this time of year, are sent from Chile and New Zealand, respectively. 

Yes, I know that the embedded energy of the overseas apples could actually be less than the PA Macs, but I don't know this, and so I went for closer. It'd be great to see embedded-energy labeling, but I don't see a groundswell for that. 

On this thread of thought, I again recommend James Howard Kuntsler's "World Made By Hand," in which he uses the novel, in part, to sketch out what a breakdown of world commerce would mean for eating habits. Under that sort of circumstance, there would be no slow comings-to-Jesus. 

In the meantime, there's the Macintosh, finally. And plenty of AFGOs to go.

 


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