I’m surprised you can live off of only the food you buy from an “amish [sic]” person who lives near you and that you didn’t get there using public roads, transportation vehicle that wasn’t built by someone outside of yourself of this person’s Amish community, that you used a purely-local currency to “buy” that food, or…

I reject your breeding assertions. And, to point out, I’d much rather have a produce grown in an ecologically responsible location any day. You may want to point to the peach, but what about pineapple, or almonds, or avocados, or agave, or any number of other products not well-grown in “Michigan or Illinois”?

It may shock you to learn, facts aren’t subject to majority rule. That there are so many stupid people here has no basis on whether you’re “correct” or not.

You sure are!

Food grown locally is a lot better for the environment than food trucked in thousands of miles. There is a health benefit to buying local though.

Yeah, you’re lying to yourself about that.

They also taste better and I feel better knowing they don’t use pesticides or herbicides

which is the economy I’m tied with.

the fresher, healthier and more economically sound local option

Anti-scientific responses that repeat lies about GMOs get dismissal.

Why commit to the community though? Are they better than any other community?

In every U.S. place I can think of, “local” food is more expensive. Transportation is the lie “local” producers tell to try and trick you into buying their stuff.

Why shouldn’t I support companies like Monsanto (nice boogeyman; the company name literally doesn’t exist anymore and your use of it is probably to reference fear of some kind) or Tyson? Why should I support “local” producers over low-income producers overseas? Why?

I have no interest in “buying local,” no matter the definition of local, because to me it’s a clear example of ethnocentrism and xenophobia at work. Why should I fear my food coming from somewhere else? There’s nothing health-related that is solely dependent upon the distance a food product has to travel before being…

And it had multiple types of blade hilts.

(Hope your reference was intentional!)

How can reusing bread possibly be in line with health codes?!

I worked as a lifeguard instructor for several years at a university and obviously completely agree with you. And also, a lot of people don’t realize that it isn’t an insignificant amount of time that goes into teaching lifeguards how to get away from drowning victims, so that they themselves don’t end up distressed…

But parachute journalism is fraught, and too often mines only the surface cliches, or attempts to speak for a population it doesn’t belong to.

Right, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, kind of like how you only catch herpes simplex once in a lifetime.