摘要：The 100-Mile Diet, inspired by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon who participated in a one-year experiment in local eating, led thousands of individuals to change the way they eat. “Eat local” has become a mainstream mantra of those who claim that increased local food production and consumption have significant economic, environmental, and social benefits. Although its original goal was to support local culinary and agricultural initiatives, this movement is now promoting increased local food purchases by public institutions such as schools, hospitals, and prisons as well as banning the conversion of agricultural land to other purposes. While no one denies that local farmers’ markets are pleasant places, the alleged larger benefits of the locavore philosophy are mythical.
