date:Sep 27, 2012
sees some strong upsides to local, even beyond growing consumer interest.
If we went into a period of extremely high fuel prices, then it would be an advantage to source as much local as possible, he said. It could get to a point where shipping organic apples from Washington to New York becomes prohibitively expensive.
One factor that Hallmann did not see boosting local food over organic, though, was a recent, highly-publicized study from Stanford indicating that the health benefits of organic