Summary: Liberal Curmudgeon, Stephen Budiansky thinks that locavores are playing fast and loose with their statistics when they tout the environmental benefits of eating locally. It is absurd, he claims, to revile a California tomato for the energy required to truck it cross-country while giving a pass to an otherwise identical tomato grown in energy-profligate hot houses closer to where it will be consumed. He argues that the efficiencies of mega-scale global supply lines tread more lightly on the planet than a situation in which everyone tries to do it all in their own backyards. KMO invites Fish in the Water blogger, Tara Shannon Holste and Digital Crusader, Eric Boyd back to the program to weigh the merits of food choices made on the basis of efficiency, food miles, sustainability, price and a myriad of other possible concerns.
