After reading your “Organic Food and Purity” post, hinting at women’s and immigrant rights, two things I care very much about, I cannot wait to read your longer piece. You are one of the few people who has said something about these programs. Amazing amazing amazing. Yes. and thank you.

Aww thank you!

I know I am not the first one to critique the “buy local” as tribalist and full of racist undertones. A year ago or so I made a few observations about the movement but let’s just say they weren’t very well received ;-P

Some people argued that I was missing the point about the inherent value of saving fuel and not increasing one’s carbon footprint. Some (other) people were angry with me because I seemed to have lost sight of the fact that “buying local” supports MY community as well. I got at least one piece of hate mail informing me that “reverse racism”, etc.

Obviously I haven’t learned my lesson because I am planning to write about this yet again. So, there’s that….

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