On AlterNet: locavore

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5 Ridiculous Myths People Use to Trash Local Food -- And Why They're Wrong

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. November 18, 2011.

Articles "debunking" the local food movement are stale, shallow and often incorrect.

Inflammatory New Book Attacking Local Food Movement Has One Grain of Truth Buried Under Heaps of Manure

Kerry Trueman, AlterNet. August 26, 2009.

"Just Food" is framed as the lament of a lapsed locavore who has been driven into the arms of Agribiz by food-mile militants who, according to him, number in the millions.

Locavore to the Max: How to Forage for Low-Impact, Recession-Proof Food

Matthew Stein, Chelsea Green Publishing. April 7, 2009.

What's the 'greenest' form of feeding yourself? How can you feed yourself with the smallest possible carbon footprint? Foraging, of course!