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  • Local Food and the Unsustainable Absurdity of the Average American Diet [What Happens When Supply Issues Occur?]

    10/15/2022 11:21:57 AM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 66 replies
    The Frugalite Blog ^ | January, 2022 | Daisy Luther
    Whatever happened to local food? Have you ever thought about how wildly unrealistic and unsustainable our current diets are? For example, items that don’t grow within the same season are commonly consumed together. Things that don’t grow on the same continent are combined into all sorts of meals. We eat blueberries in December and drink pumpkin spice lattes in the summer. We eat tropical fruit with Midwestern grains. Without the transportation system, there would be absolutely no rhyme or reason to our “normal” diets. What is a typical breakfast in the United States? A typical start to one’s day in...