In this week’s TIME, Joel Stein pokes fun at one of the sillier manifestations of the anti-globalization movement: the farm-to-table movement.
While describing his efforts to prepare a meal consisting entirely of food produced at least 3,000 miles away from his home, Stein labels the opposite goal ? meals consisting mostly of food produced within 100 miles of consumption ? “antiglobalization idiocy.”
The local-food movement is deeply Luddite, part of the green lobby that
measures improvement by self-denial more than by actual impact….
