Meanings
- uncountableThe practice of eating food that is produced locally.
But intentional locavorism as a phenomenon is quite recent, and only exists within and against the context of the globalized corporate food market.
2014, Benjamin Zeller, Marie Dallam, Reid Neilson, Religion, Food, and Eating in North America, →ISBN, page 2982 more examples
From a global perspective, locavorism begins to look like a narcissistic pseudomoralistic club for the wealthy to keep food and money circulating among their own tight little cliques.
2012, Steven Poole, You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture, →ISBNCulturally, locavorism is often framed as a form of ethical consumer resistance to the control of food by transnational corporations, as well as a personally rewarding activity.
2015, Daniel Thomas Cook, J. Michael Ryan, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies, →ISBN, page 387
Origin
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