Sentences with phrase «locavores do»

Most locavores do want a world, however, in which the parsnip farmer and all the other farmers can support themselves and survive to plant next year's crop.

Local sourcing is also important to many restaurants in New York, so being a locavore doesn't mean always cooking at home.

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If you do believe any of them, you may be totally wrong and all of these statements are completely false, according to James E. McWilliams, author of a new book entitled Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly.

McKibben: Well, it's not quite the same, because we're not, you know, we [wouldn't] try to, sort of, do a big political campaign around it, but it is the way that this, you know, the things like this locavore movement and local agriculture in general have spread very rapidly from local farmers» market [s] to the fastest growing part of the food economy in this country and have been for a decade now, they're just booming everywhere.

Growing up in a border - town of Provence du Québec, I would like to mention that locavore - orientation (a locavore is one that eats food grown near them — usually 100 - mile radus) is not a movement in Montréal, but an idea deeply rooted in the province's identity.

Second, it did not equate local with seasonal — something most of us «locavores» do.

I would love to be a locavore but can not imagine finding the time to do it.

Besides not knowing how to ranch (nor do I have the property) and the fact that I can barely grow zucchini, the difference between these «lazy locavores» and me, I would hope, is that I know my ranchers and farmers; they are friends of mine.

Kim Severson has an interesting story in the paper today on «lazy locavores,» people who want to buy local produce or raise it on their own property but don't want to get their hands dirty (or lack the time).

My general sympathies may lie with libertarians, but I don't want to be like the preachy locavore who reaches for the imported Scotch or the pious enviro who drives his Prius back along a freeway to his metropolis after a weekend at his fussily organic country farm.

[M] any people have latched onto the local - food movement, billing themselves «locavores,» as an antidote to the energy used to transport food long distances and the energy intensity of large - scale industrialized agriculture... Strangely enough, shipping food thousands of miles can sometimes require less energy, emit less carbon dioxide and do less environmental damage.

While I don't deny that the researchers reveal an important side to the home - cooking debate that is raging in North America right now, fueled by passionately idealistic food writers and locavores on one side and pushed back by low - income families, Big Ag, and the processed food industry on the other side, the basic argument that «home cooking isn't for everyone» just doesn't sit well with me.

With the locavore movement going strong, don't be surprised if more and more of your negotiations involve some kind of backyard conveyance.