Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family spent a year eating locally, avoiding food that was transported hundreds or thousands of miles, burning great amounts of fossil fuel and helping to destroy the planet.
In the process, they also avoided all highly processed foods --- i.e. foods that bear as much relationship to nutrition as the Bush regime does to democracy.
In Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, she describes the family dynamics, the challenges of eating locally, and life on an Appalachia farm where they grew most of their own food, including turkeys.
And she champions the use of a great word to describe a person who is moving away from eating gas guzzling foods --- locavore.
Becoming more of a locavore seems the way to go for a rad/lib like me.
Posted by Deck at May 19, 2007 07:42 AM