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Probably the best evidence I have to support this "fallacy" is the couple hundred pounds of honey I harvest locally every year. So according to this article I s
by tehchromic 11y ago
Probably the best evidence I have to support this "fallacy" is the couple hundred pounds of honey I harvest locally every year. So according to this article I should drop my beekeeping and just buy honey from Chinese suppliers who are operating at scale and using smarter ... technology? I dunno, but in the future I'd like my honey like my tomatoes: to continue to come from my neighborhood whenever possible.
- johansch 11y agoI don't understand why the opposite to "local" has to be "halfway around the world". Why not do it in a scalable but sensible way? You know, like being able to address a market of millions instead of thousands, but perhaps not necessarily billions. You are of course welcome to pay extra for some sort of weird pleasure of having things made very close to where you live, but I think the taxation systems should punish you for the extra strain that makes you put onto the environment.
- tehchromic 11y agowell i agree with you, and I wouldn't knock food transport and scale provided it is done in a sustainable and non toxic way. but i definitely take issue with the "weird pleasure" comment, as there is nothing weird about the pleasure of farming in the city and growing your own food. It's about one of the most engaging cultural practices in existence, and it's as old as people. But it takes learning and practice, and awareness of that value, which is clearly missing in modern culture which views farming as some sort of weird thing. A weird peasure indeed!