{"id":55967,"date":"2020-12-11T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55967"},"modified":"2020-12-11T19:42:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T00:42:57","slug":"who-eats-local-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55967","title":{"rendered":"Who eats local food?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The question of who eats local food is a tricky one to pin down.<\/p>\n

There is first the question of what constitutes \u2018local food\u2019 \u2013 if you\u2019re a farmer raising grass-fed beef or lamb in Wales that you then sell across country, most people would say that\u2019s local enough; but what if you sold across the UK? How about the local jam producer that sells locally at farmers\u2019 markets in their region but buys in fruit from Spain to make the jam? It\u2019s something of a conundrum. You\u2019ll also find that distance is yet another variable \u2013 many would agree that \u2018local\u2019 in the UK is within 50 miles, but in a big country like the US, food 500 miles away can also be \u2018local\u2019. So, it\u2019s complicated and to a certain extent, how we define it may be idiosyncratic and particular to how each individual feels about the food they are eating.<\/p>\n

\u2018Local food\u2019 also suffers from an image problem \u2013 it\u2019s assumed to be niche, more expensive and the purview of the upper middle-classes. A number of years ago, food critic Jay Rayner had a notable go at farmers\u2019 markets, touting them as selling \u2018over-priced fare\u2019 as a \u2018status symbol\u2019,\u00a0angering Welsh food producers<\/a>. But \u2018local food\u2019 isn\u2019t what many people posit it is \u2013 I know, because I\u2019m a local food producer. While my evidence is inevitably anecdotal, I know we feed a diverse range of people. We run a box scheme serving well over 100 households and also do a weekly producer\u2019s market in Newport, Pembrokeshire. The people who buy from us are anything but uniform in terms of their demographic make-up \u2013 I say this because we know a lot of our customers…<\/p>\n

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Who eats local food? The question of who eats local food is a tricky one to pin down. There is first the question of what constitutes \u2018local food\u2019 \u2013 if you\u2019re a farmer raising grass-fed beef or lamb in Wales that you then sell across country, most people would say that\u2019s local enough; but what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30708,299,319,1912,6510,6726,6867],"class_list":["post-55967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-alicia-miller","tag-farming","tag-food","tag-food-production","tag-food-system","tag-local-food","tag-sustainable-food-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55968,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55967\/revisions\/55968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}