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The Lores of Local Food: Different Ways of Being Local and Eating Locally
Throughout the course of my research, I’ve seen how there is no one way to eat locally or to farm sustainably. These concepts and practices are quite fluid and change based on context, but also with the flash of a dollar sign. The “Loca-vore” movement is but one incarnation of many efforts to (re)connect to land and food, to foster food autonomy, to check out of the ConAgra-Monsanto complex, or to profit off of well-intentioned consumers’ desires to be more responsible or ecological with their purchases. Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, california, engagement, food, inequality, loca-vore movement, socio-environmental justice, United States, US West
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