>>”It should be obvious that buying locally produced food is worse for the environment, from the simple fact that it is more expensive.”
This one sentence is so ridiculous in its premise and conclusion, that the rest of the article is a waste of time to read - utter garbage.
People start a sentence that way when they want you to shut off your brain and just accept some sort of crap story that they made up.
Well the author is talking about farmer’s markets around the cities where you can buy artisan cheeses etc. Our little farmer’s markets in rural MO have the basics. Red slicing maters, maybe paste tomatoes, green beans, potatoes, cucumbers etc and for a little cheaper than the grocery store, else, these cheap people out here wouldn’t buy them. Eggs too. Everyone’s got “farm fresh” eggs. Doesn’t matter of the birds are locked up in a coup with commercial feed. they’re “farm fresh” eggs. Most of the gardeners here use all sorts of white powdered chemicals on their garden too.
utter garbage, and udder garbage.