Anyone with a shred of concern for the environment knows
that locally grown produce is preferable to supermarket produce, right? Wrong—that
is, according to Salon writer Roberta Kwok, who's done some serious squash-related
research.
The common sense argument for buying local is that transporting
food long distances between the producers and the distributors uses up
unnecessary fuel. But this argument fails to take into account the fact that
conventional distributors drive to supermarkets in big trucks packed with produce,
while farmers markets are stocked by Fords and Chevys carrying only, say, 100
pieces of fruit.
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