num_pages: 288
description: Todays food activists think that sustainable farming and eating local are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. But after a thorough review of the evidence Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu have concluded that these claims are mistaken. In The Locavores Dilemma they explain the history science and economics of food supply to reveal what locavores miss or misunderstand: the real environmental impacts of agricultural production; the drudgery of subsistence farming; and the essential role large-scale industrial producers play in making food more available varied affordable and nutritionally rich than ever before in history.They show how eliminating agriculture subsidies and opening up international trade not reducing food miles is the real route to sustainability; and why eating globally not only locally is the way to save the planet.
language: English
title: The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet
publisher: PublicAffairs