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I am incredibly goal-oriented and deadline-driven. Give me a deadline and while I may be a procrastinator, I will also be wholly motivated to meet it — even if at the last minute. Give me a challenge that needs conquering and I will become obsessed with accomplishing it.
It’s probably these inward tendencies that make me particularly fond of the Eat Local Challenge, a movement that as of October 1st entered its fifth year.
As if the sometimes overwhelming commitment weren’t enough, confusion in recent years over whether or not a locavore diet is “worth it” — not just for ourselves, but for the environment — has added a new dimension of frustration for budding farmer’s market foodies.
A recent article from Newsweek, ‘Swallowing Eco Hype‘, highlights an interview with author James E. McWilliams who, despite his book’s title, Just Food: How Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, claims not to be entirely anti-locavore himself.
While McWilliams and I may not see eye-to-eye on every point of the argument – few of them, indeed — there’s a strong case to be made for some of the underlying fundamentals to the approach he has taken in tackling the problem at hand.