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	Are you a "Locavore"?

11-26-2007 6:18 AM

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locavore, locality, environment, global warming, food, carbon footprint

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11-26-2007 7:31 AM

I'm a vegansexal minus the vegan part.
*LMAO*

11-26-2007 2:07 PM

Debby, you git!!

11-26-2007 5:16 PM

heh, heh

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/75b38295-3c1a-4453-b274-90e7dfac3231/6D0A6C59-A0DB-4911-8AD0-DFAF91BB6A2A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2007/11/more-than-just-silly-name_23.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2007/11/more-than-just-silly-name_23.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2007/11/more-than-just-silly-name_23.html"><DIV><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/blog/shortsharpscience/veggies_231.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/blog/shortsharpscience/veggies_231.jpg" /></A>Are you a carnivore, pescetarian, <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexitarianism">flexitarian</A>, <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225725.100-look-your-dinner-in-the-eye.html">vegetarian</A>, vegan, <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2007/08/vegansexual.html">vegansexual</A>... or a "locavore"? That is, someone who chooses to only eat food that's been produced locally.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2007/11/more-than-just-silly-name_23.html"><DIV>The word was coined two years ago on a <A href="http://www.locavores.com/">website</A> by Jessica Prentice (author of <A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Full-Moon-Feast-Hunger-Connection/dp/1933392002/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195663997&sr=8-2"><SPAN>Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection</SPAN></A>). She and three Californian friends decided to only eat food produced within 100 miles of San Francisco for a whole month – and challenged others to follow suit, which many gladly did – and continue to do so. (Here are some <A href="http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/344/locavore.html">tips on how to be a locavore</A>)</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2007/11/more-than-just-silly-name_23.html"><DIV>Indeed, eating locally produced food has become such a popular phenomenon that "locavore" was voted <A href="http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/locavore/">Word of the Year</A> by the <SPAN>New Oxford American Dictionary</SPAN>. (Some people refer to themselves as "localvores" but they are one and the same thing.)</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2007/11/more-than-just-silly-name_23.html">So what exactly is the great appeal of food that was reared or grown nearby? First and foremost, it's less damaging to the environment. The question is, though, how much less?</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6D0A6C59-A0DB-4911-8AD0-DFAF91BB6A2A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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