Food, Real

The food blog Macheesmo led me to this 20-minute video of a talk by Mark Bittman, "What's wrong with what we eat." I know a lot of this stuff is pretty familiar to many of you, but I found it a useful summary, and one with a skepticism of overemphasizing local food. Video below.

One point I'd add that Bittman doesn't make directly is that the difference in carbon output is generally much bigger between meat and non-meat than between local and not so local. In other words, eating less meat, particularly less cow and pig, is more important than trying to replace the vegetables-from-across-the-country you buy with local vegetables.