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      <![CDATA[I think it's a catch 22 kind of issue. To really produce the amount of food necessary requires more farmers and/or bigger farms (that aren't just growing durum wheat and cotton).
        
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      <![CDATA[You smell shit in the air....probably lingers around your gas hole
        
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      <![CDATA[In Bisbee one of the elementary schools has a garden so that kids learn early how food is grown. They learn a lot of things from tending a garden, for that matter.
        
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      <![CDATA[Really? I have never witnessed anyone reach an epiphany as a result of Carl's Jr. french fry's.
        
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      <![CDATA[The local food movement is BS. Food should be grown where conditions make it most economical and efficient to grow it.
        
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      <![CDATA[Food snobbery is not exclusive to the local movement. Vegans, vegetarians, grass-fed beef, you name it; there is some level of food snobbery in any food movement.<br>
Heck, I lived with vegetarians who cut absolutely no slack to meat eaters.
        
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      <![CDATA[Excellent point in that this local and organic thing is tough to pay for and growing your own costs a lot too. Those who say we just have to arrange our priorities are oblivious to those who really do not have a choice.
        
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      <![CDATA[A commitment to personal and environmental health and a desire for honest food is not snobbery. If you made the dog shit in my yard taste appealing, I still wouldn't want to eat it.
        
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      <![CDATA[i think you are also right, we are years away from reaching that apple. i think it takes years if not decades to re build a regional/local food system.
        
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      <![CDATA[Desert Rain Cafe is impressive on various levels. They use at least one indigenous ingredient in every dish, the chef is incredible, they are committed to their community and the mesquite cookies are weighty and perfect.
        
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      <![CDATA[Also, I know many folks take it as a given that local food is better for the environment, but, in a climate like ours, I'm not sure you can just assume this to be true. Also, I'm not even sure how you compare the impact of shipping food in (gasoline, air pollution) to the strain on our water table from irrigation.
        
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      <![CDATA[As rconnelly notes above, producing food locally in the arid Sonoran desert--especially for larger scales typically necessary to make portions affordable--is a real challenge. One place that does this well, albeit in a more fecund region, is Burgerville, which is a fastfood chain w/ about 40 locations throughout Oregon and Washington.
        
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      <![CDATA[Federal agricultural subsidies make certain things, like corn and beef, a lot cheaper and more profitable to grow/raise than without the subsidies. That lowers the "true" price of food at fast-food restaurants, which have made an industry based around things like corn and beef.
        
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      <![CDATA[I agree too. .when it gets down here to the prices the "little people" can pay..
        
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      <![CDATA[I agree with what you are saying.The thing is that living in the desert limits us. Local food is a little harder to produce in huge quantities.
        
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