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Originally Posted by Victoria
Excellent points. There’s no comparison in flavour between real fruit and vegetables, and tasteless stuff, bred primarily not to bruise, which is picked too soon, entombed in plastic and shipped thousands of miles.
Despite my sympathy for the ‘eat local’ movement though, I’m pretty spoiled & hypocritical. I hate to start the day without coffee imported from South America and tropical bananas on cereal  |
I'd like to eat local more than I do. The prices! I frequently go to the local farmers markets and end up buying less than I'd hoped because I can't justify it. In the end, flavor determines it; local tomatoes over those orange tennis balls they sell in the supermarket? Absolutely. But potatoes? I just can't. Big agro is so much cheaper. And I say that knowing that potatoes are among the dirty dozen, so there's really no excuse.