Local food or less meat is a false dichotomy, for one. What is really important is an understanding that personal consumption choices are no substitute for political change and that political change does not necessarily, and often does not, follow personal change.
Derrick Jensen has written extensively on this issue, and has a fantastic and short essay, "Forget Shorter Showers" [1]. It could easily have been called "Forget Local Food or Less Meat".
Derrick Jensen has written extensively on this issue, and has a fantastic and short essay, "Forget Shorter Showers" [1]. It could easily have been called "Forget Local Food or Less Meat".
[1] http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801...