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is from Roger Meiners’s October 2012 review of Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu’s 2012 book, The Locavore’s Dilemma: [2]

Locavore restaurants are sprinkled around the country.  Adherents worry about how far it is to go to get acceptable food; is 100 miles fair?  This hobby may voluntarily generate a bit of income for high-cost banana growers in Montana rather than greedy low-cost Guatemalan banana farmers, but what does it do for food efficiency and the environment as a whole?

The agricultural market is already shot through with subsidies, such as the one for uncompetitive American sugar growers in a few states who make campaign contributions in each and every election.  Don’t be surprised if locavores manage to get in on the act, tying together misguided economic and environmental beliefs that Desrochers and Shimizu dissect in scholarly, but readable fashion.

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