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The Locavore's Dilemma In Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet

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By: Pierre Desrochers(Author), Hiroko Shimizu(Author), Blake Hurst(Foreword By)
257 pages, no illustrations
The Locavore's Dilemma
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  • The Locavore's Dilemma ISBN: 9781586489403 Hardback Jun 2012 Out of Print #245690
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A new generation of food activists has come to believe that "sustainable farming" and "eating local" are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. By combining healthy eating and a high standard of environmental stewardship, these locavores think, we can also deliver important economic benefits and increase food security within local economies.

But after a thorough review of the evidence, economic geographer Pierre Desrochers and policy analyst Hiroko Shimizu have concluded these claims are mistaken. In The Locavore's Dilemma, they explain the history, science, and economics of food supply to reveal what locavores miss or misunderstand: the real environmental impacts of agricultural production; the drudgery of subsistence farming; and the essential role large-scale, industrial producers play in making food more available, varied, affordable, and nutritionally rich than ever before in history. At best, they show, locavorism is a well-meaning marketing fad among the world's most privileged consumers. At worst, it constitutes a dangerous distraction from solving serious global food issues.

Deliberately provocative, but based on scrupulous research and incontrovertible scientific evidence, The Locavore's Dilemma proves that:
- Our modern food-supply chain is a superior alternative that has evolved through constant competition and ever-more-rigorous efficiency.
- A world food chain characterized by free trade and the absence of agricultural subsidies would deliver lower prices and more variety in a manner that is both economically and environmentally more sustainable.
- There is no need to feel guilty for not joining the locavores on their crusade. Eating globally, not only locally, is the way to save the planet.

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Pierre Desrochers is an associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto who writes frequently on economic development, globalization, energy, and transportation issues. He was a research fellow at the centre for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.

Hiroko Shimizu holds a master's of international public policy from Osaka University. Desrochers and Shimizu have both been research fellows of the Property and Environment Research centre in Bozeman, Montana, and the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Cancelled
By: Pierre Desrochers(Author), Hiroko Shimizu(Author), Blake Hurst(Foreword By)
257 pages, no illustrations
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