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Does Local Produce Mean Better?

I'm not sure it means better. I think people feel better from buying from some one locally. Just my thoughts.
 
From farm to fork it is said the average food travels 1,500 miles.
As long as the food looks good, I really don't think most people care where their food comes from.
 
Normally it would be fresher and hopefully less chemicals. The money would also stay local, not SA or mexico.
 
So would "Local" mean within your city, county, tri-county, state, tri-state area, country? Define local.
 
You're right about keeping the money local, however one has to wonder what is compromised in nutritional values for shelf life, or do the majority of people just don't care about that?
 
I just keep thinking,if eating "local" is better,I can't eat what they're serving when I'm traveling because it's not "local" to me.
 
However:
In 2008 Congress passed H.R.2419, which amended the "Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act". In the amendment "locally" and "regionally" are grouped together and are defined as


(I) the locality or region in which the final product is marketed, so that the total distance that the product is transported is less than 400 miles from the origin of the product, or (II) the State in which the product is produced.
 
Of course it depends on your definition of 'better'.If you live on the East Coast like I do and produce comes from Calif. or Mexico then it certainly can't be very fresh.At least when you buy from local growers you can go see how they grow and handle your food before you eat it.If it comes from the grocery who knows what its gone thru or had done to it.Personally I like it from my garden and thats about as local as it can get.Many people apparently couldn't care less how their food is grown or handled and some care a great deal the best part is that there are places for both types to buy food.
 
A supermarket produce manager for a local chain told me that they can call it local if from Ga, NC, TN, SC or Fla. We are in upper SC.
 
Perhaps a better question would have been, "What does locally grown produce mean to you"?
You're right though about two types of people. Personally I believe many shop the big box stores for the convenience.
 
About 10 days ago wife brought some peaches home from Walmart. I thought---this can't be good---out of season and from Walmart to boot. They were delicious. So few days later she buys some more. Same thing. Juicy and full of flavor. Yesterday she buys some more. Good again. Best peaches I have had in years. I don't know where local is for Walmart but those are the local peaches I want from now on.
 
In retail terms.... 'Local' means anything that can be obtained within 24 hours by truck or airplane.. lol
I laugh... but that's how it works.

Rod
 
they recommend that you place your kitchen garden within 20 feet from your kitchen. otherwise if it is to far away it will tend to get unattended and unused.
 
Those that "grow locally" would hope you assume it means better. No different than those who want you to assume "organically grown" means better....It's in THEIR best financial interest that you assume what isn't necessarily the case.

Grown locally SHOULD be fresher, but not always the case. No reason whatsoever that it is "better". Organic has a MUCH higher percentage rate of food bourne illness related to e coli, etc,

Just because someone tags a specific item with a trendy, popular term used as a sales pitch, that doesn't mean it's "better".
 
Local is a greenie term,not having much to do with the quality of the product. Mainly it is used to tout a smaller, "carbon footprint", due to less fuel and resources being used in the warehousing, transportation and refrigeration cost.
 

"Locally grown" means right in my own backyard. Peas picked fresh from the vine and taters dug fresh from the ground, and ALL served up for supper just a few hours (not days) later. Likewise with sweetcorn. Pick it, shuck it right there in the garden patch, bring it in the house and drop it into a pot of boiling water. From cornstalk to belly in one hour or less.
 
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