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There is obviously some nuance to the position of "eat local." It should actually be something like "grow local, with minimal external inputs." A good example is my 'favorite' crop and darling of middle America, Corn. Corn has some of the highest subsidies and is an incredibly thirsty crop, and yet it's grown in the great plains, which are pretty arid all things considered. Why are we growing corn instead of any other crop? If that problem is ever addressed by government food policy, many of the other inefficiencies in the global food supply will be addressed as well. But basically grow the crops that grow best in the region you are in, trade for crops that don't grow there.
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Corn gets a bad rap not because it is inherently poo poo, but because it has one of the largest lobbyist organizations in congress with the Farm Bill being a particularly large boondoggle. It also doesn't help that by irrigating it beyond regional ability you can waste water 2-3 times more efficiently. And of course converting it to ethanol after wasting all that water, a process which requires additional water, doesn't help any. As for another crop, why not wheat?
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