The point for most locavores isn't that if you live where there's no corn grown that you should never eat corn. It's that if you =do= live where corn is grown, why not eat locally-grown corn instead of corn shipped in from hundreds of miles away?
I live in the middle of corn country, and during August and September I eat lots of fresh sweet corn grown within 20 miles of my home. I buy extra and freeze it. I probably spend less than I would buying frozen corn shipped in from hundreds or more miles away next January when I need some frozen corn.
In the process, I've helped keep a local small farmer in business because every penny went directly to him.
How exactly is this tree-hugging hippy crap?
Valereee wrote, "The point for most locavores isn't that if you live where there's no corn grown that you should never eat corn. It's that if you =do= live where corn is grown, why not eat locally-grown corn instead of corn shipped in from hundreds of miles away?"
But that's not what the originators say. From the locavores.com site, their goal is "to eat only foods grown or harvested within a 100 mile radius of San Francisco for an entire month." Thus if corn isn't grown locally, they don't eat it.
I prefer fresh over frozen or preserved. My mom grew up on a farm, and I spent many hours at Grandma's place canning and freezing food. But not everyone has an extensive basement pantry or multiple chest freezers to store the food like Grandma had.
And the locavores.com webpage has lots of tree-hugging hippy crap apparent all over the site.
Yes, but that's how they choose to focus on eating locally. It's not a religion they started that other people are following. There's no orthodoxy.
I'm sure the locavores.com webpage does contain all sorts of stuff you think is silly. It's the website of four women from San Francisco, basically. It doesn't represent the entire idea. They didn't come up with the idea -- they just coined the term that has gotten into use as the idea caught hold with a larger group of people.
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