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Dear EarthTalk: Why do environmentalists advocate that people “eat locally?” I don’t understand the connection between patronizing local food producers and environmental quality.
— Timothy Douglas,
Burlington, Vt.
In our modem age of food preservatives and additives, genetically altered crops and E. coli outbreaks, as with the
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