The Locavore's Dilemma

by Pierre Desrochers

agribusiness and changing

  evolution of

  Human intellect

  Hundred Years War

  Hunger

  See also Famine; Food shortage

  Hunter, William Wilson

  Hurst, Blake

  Hybridization

  Imperfections

  Imports

  rice

  urbanization and

  India

  Initiatives, local food

  economic depression and

  history of

  support

  wartime(photo)

  Inner cities

  Innovation

  Integrated Regional Information Networks

  Intermediaries

  Invasive species

  Invisible hand

  Irish potato famine

  Jacks, Graham Vernon

  Jacobs, Jane

  Japan

  famine in

  World War II and

  Jefferson, Lorian P.

  Jeffrey, Clara

  Jensen Farms

  Johnson, Paul

  Juche

  The Jungle (Sinclair)

  Junk food

  Kautsky, Karl

  Kenyan exports

  King, Clyde Lyndon

  Kingsolver, Barbara

  Know Your Farmer, Know your Food program

  Ladies’ Home Journal (magazine)

  Land

  abandoned

  grabs

  management

  urban

  Land use

  debate over

  trade-off

  Landsburg, Steven

  Latitude

  LCA. See Life Cycle Assessment

  Lebensraum

  Levalo, Vicent

  Liberty Gardens

  Liebman, Matt

  Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

  food mile analysis(table)

  Lifespan

  Lifestyle

  Listeria monocytogenes

  Livestock

  disease and

  diversification

  domestication of

  subsistence agriculture and

  urban

  See also Animal production

  Local (component of SOLE)

  economic argument for

  environmental argument for

  security argument for

  social argument for

  taste, nutrition, and safety arguments for

  Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act

  Local Harvest

  Local trap

  Localvores

  Localvorism

  Location. See Geographical origins

  Locavore

  London(table)

  Lowry, Dave

  Make Room! Make Room! (Harrison)

  Malawi

  Malnourishment

  Malthus, Robert Thomas

  Management

  Management of Agriculture and Food in the German-Occupied and Other Areas of Fortress Europe (study)

  Manufacturing

  Manure

  animal

  natural

  Mao Zedong

  Maraîchers (Parisian farmers)

  Marijuana

  Marine dead zones

  Marketing

  truth in

  Marshall, Alfred

  Masters, William

  McCain, John

  McKelvey, Blake

  McWilliams, James

  Meat(table)

  dressed

  See also Animal production

  Meatpacking

  by-products in(fig.)

  district in Chicago

  history

  Media coverage

  Medicine

  Medieval Western Europe

  Mediterranean basin

  Mercury

  Middleton, Thomas Hudson

  Migrant farm workers

  Milá i Canals, Llorenc

  Military

  blockades

  security

  Milk(table)

  raw

  Mills, Mark P.

  Minerals

  Mises, Ludwig von

  Mississippi flood plain

  Mississippi Valley farmers

  Modifications

  Mom-and-Pops

  Mongooses

  Monoculture

  disease and

  diversification versus

  division of labor and

  famine and

  food shortage and

  large-scale

  potatoes and

  resources

  specialization and

  Monopolies

  Monsanto

  Mores, Marquis de

  Mother Jones (magazine)

  Murton, Brian

  Mussolini, Benito

  National Organic Act

  National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

  National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

  Native American

  agricultural contributions

  reservations

  Natural advantages

  Natural ailments

  Natural resources, management and mismanagement of

  Neo-colonial land grabs

  New Zealand

  Nigeria

  Non-native species introduction

  North Korea

  Norton, George

  No-till agriculture

  Nutrition

  argument for local component of SOLE

  height and

  organic versus conventional

  Pollan and

  Obama, Barack

  Obesity

  OECD. See Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

  Official System of Chou

  Olmstead, Alan L.

  The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Pollan)

  100-mile diet

  Onion

  Opportunity costs

  Organic certification

  Organic Consumers of America

  Organic pesticides

  Organic produce nutrition

  Organic Trade Association

  Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

  Origin. See Geographical origins

  Overnutrition

  Overspecialization

  Overweight

  Owen, David

  Paarlberg, Robert

  Pack, Charles Lathrop

  Page, John

  Papa John’s (restaurant chain)

  Paracelsus

  Parisian truck farmers

  Pasour, E. C.

  Pastureland

  Peak oil

  Pépin, Jacques

  Perishable food

  Permanent human settlements

  Perry, George Powell

  Pest build-ups

  Pesticides

  arsenic-based

  natural

  organic

  subsidizing

  Pharaonic Egypt

  Phosphate fertilizer

  Phytophthora infestans

  Pierre, Doudou

  Pilcher, Jeffrey M.

  Pingree, Chellie

  Pinker, Steven

  Plants

  domestication of

  mutations

  See also Species

  Plato

  Pliny the Elder

  Polése, Mario

  Policy. See Food policy

  Pollan, Michael

  animal production and

  governmental food purchasing and

  as rock star

  on taste, nutrition and safety

  Polycultures

  famine and

  productivity of modern

  resources

  See also Diversification

  Polyface farm

  Pompeo, Joe

  Population

  bomb

  hunger and

  percent living in cities

  Pork War

  Porter, George Richardson

  Post-war reconstruction

  Potatoe
s

  blight

  genetically modified

  monoculture and

  ripening periods(fig.)

  Poverty

  Preservation

  health effects of technologies in

  latitude and

  technologies

  Preservatives

  Prevor, Jim (“Perishable Pundit”)

  Price (food)

  ceilings

  consumer standards of living and

  controls

  floors

  humanistic pursuits and

  of 100-mile diet

  premium

  spikes

  subsidies and

  swings

  transportation costs and

  transportation developments and

  Processed products

  Processing

  Produce(table)

  conventional versus organic

  Producer

  consumer-, relationship

  small

  urban food

  Production (food)

  apples

  costs

  domestic

  economies of scale in

  European substitutions during military blockades

  fate of

  greenhouse gas emissions

  increase

  in proximity to city limits

  strawberry

  subsidies

  tomatoes

  urban land and

  value per worker

  See also Animal production

  Productivity

  differentials

  of modern polycultures

  Profitability

  Prohibitions

  Protein

  Purcell, Mark

  Pyrethrum flower

  Quaker Oats

  Quality control

  Railway food security and

  The Rape of the Earth” A World Survey of Soil Erosion (Jacks & Whyte)

  Raw materials

  Redway, Jacques

  Refrigeration

  Reinhard, Karl J.

  Republic (Plato)

  Reserves

  Resources

  natural

  Retail sector

  See also Farmers’ Market; Supermarkets

  Rhode, Paul W.

  Rice

  genetically modified

  imports

  Richardson, Jill

  Ridley, Matthew

  Rimas, Andrew

  Rinderpest

  Rio Red grapefruit

  Ripening periods

  green peas

  of potatoes(fig.)

  Risk

  Roberts, Pat

  Rochester, New York

  Rocky Mountain locusts

  Rome

  imperial history

  Warming period

  Rooftop gardens

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  Rose production

  Ross, A. B.

  Rucker, Randal R.

  Rural communities

  Rural folks

  Rural poverty

  Russell Smith, Joseph

  Sahelian cereal banks

  Saint Louis, Missouri

  Salatin, Joel

  Salmonella

  Salt(table)

  Sanitation

  Santa Barbara, California

  Santa Barbara Syndrome

  Sasol

  Saunders, Caroline

  Savary des Brûlons, Jacques

  Schiller, Otto

  Scientific research

  food safety and

  standards of living and

  Season extension

  Seasonality

  ripening periods (fig.)

  storage and

  Security. See Food security

  Seed

  companies

  Self-sufficiency

  See also Autarky

  Selick, Karen

  Shannon, Fred A.

  Shantytowns, social capital and

  Silent Spring (Carson)

  Sinclair, Upton

  SkyFarm project

  Skyscraper

  Smith, Adam

  on autarkic policies

  Smith, Denis Mack

  Smith, Kenneth

  Social argument, for local component of SOLE

  Social capital

  CSAs and

  farmers’ markets and

  grades, standards, and brands

  international chains and

  relationships and

  shantytowns and

  Social welfare policies

  SOLE. See Sustainable, organic, local, and ethical

  South Korea

  Specialization, regional

  geography and

  latitude and

  monoculture and

  in perishable products

  Species

  invasive

  non-native

  Spices(table)

  Sprawl

  Standardization (product)

  food waste and

  geographical origins and

  Standards (food)

  Standards of living

  consumer prices and

  science and

  Stopgap food policy

  Storage

  food reserves and

  seasonality and

  Strawberry production

  Subsidies fixing

  production

  See also Invisible hand

  Subsistence agriculture

  livestock and

  Subsistence farmers

  food shortage and

  Subsistence homesteads

  Suburbs

  Sugar(table)

  cane

  Superbugs

  Supermarkets

  food safety

  items in

  mom-and-pops versus

  social capital and

  Superweeds

  Supply-restriction schemes

  Sustainable, organic, local, and ethical (SOLE)

  critics of

  See also specific components

  Synthetic chemicals

  Synthetic fertilizers

  Synthetic methods

  food safety prior to

  Taste

  argument for local component of SOLE

  Pollan and

  Taylor, Greg

  Tea(table)

  Telegraph

  Temperature control

  Terminator genes

  Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Hardy)

  Third horseman

  slaying of

  Thoreau, Henry David

  Time, trade-offs and

  Tomatoes

  production of

  social costs involved in growing

  Top soil loss

  Torfs, Louis

  Traceability

  Trade

  barriers

  climate change and

  dependence on

  erosion and

  food security and

  free

  green cities and

  land management and

  origins of

  reliance on long-distance

  systems of

  Trans-Atlantic

  water usage and

  Trans-Atlantic trade

  Transportation

  building of infrastructure

  consumer

  costs and prices of food

  developments in

  food waste and

  greenhouse gas emissions of

  latitude and

  mode versus load

  technologies

  wartime efforts to reduce

  See also Railway; specific modes of transport

  Treaty of Versailles

  Trichinosis

  Triticale

  Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques

  Two-class system (food)

  Uganda

  U.K. See United Kingdom

  Unbalanced nature

  Undernourishment

  Unh
ealthy diets

  United Kingdom (U.K.)

  food commodities sold in London (table)

  See also specific places

  United States (U.S.)

  biotechnology and

  employed farmers

  foodborne illness in

  Irish potato famine and

  staple crops

  See also specific places

  Urban folks

  Urban food producers

  Urban labor markets

  Urban land

  Urban livestock

  Urban Potato Patches

  Urban sprawl

  Urbanization

  food imports and

  high-density

  See also City

  U.S. See United States

  Value

  agricultural production per worker

  feel good

  Varro

  Vegetarian diet

  Vertical farming

  Victory Gardens

  Vilsack, Tom

  Virgil

  Vitalism

  Vitamins

  Vogt, William

  Walden (Thoreau)

  Wartime

  gardening

  local food initiatives (photo)

  transportation reduction efforts

  See also World War I; World War II

  Waste. See Food waste

  Waste & Resources Action Programme

  Water

  contamination

  usage

  Wells, David Ames

  What Is Seen and What is not Seen (Bastiat)

  Wheat

  Whey plant

  Whitbeck, Ray Hughes

  Whyte, Robert Orr

  Williams, Adrian

  Wimberley, Ronald C.

  Winfrey, Oprah

  Wisconsin whey plant

  Wolmar, Christian

  World Trade Organization (WTO)

  World War I

  World War II

  Denmark during

  Japan during

  Xenophon

  Young, Arthur

  You-pick

  Zoning

  Pierre Desrochers is an associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto who writes frequently on economic development, globalization, energy, and transportation issues. He was a senior research fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.

  Hiroko Shimizu majored in history at Gakushin University and holds a master’s of international public policy from Osaka University.

  Desrochers and Shimizu have both been research fellows of the Property and Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana, and the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

  PublicAffairs is a publishing house founded in 1997. It is a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.

  I.F. STONE, proprietor of I. F. Stone’s Weekly, combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published The Trial of Socrates, which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.