Kerry Trueman took the New York Times to task for their recent negative coverage of the locavore movement in her HuffPo piece "NY Times Grumps Dump on Locavores". Well done Kerry! Here's a bit of what she had to say:
The New York Times giveth, and the New York Times taketh away. On the one hand, Nick Kristof's eloquent plea to treat our farm animals more humanely moved me to tears. On the other hand, I've barely got enough digits to count the noxious "let's not save the planet" columns that John Tierney, Stanley Fish, and Stephen J. Dubner have tossed off in recent weeks like rancid croutons.
John Tierney--the thinking man's John Stossel--delivers his trademark contrarian drivel with 10 Things to Scratch From Your Worry List, in which he gleefully skewers a whole herd of sustainable sacred cows: plastic bags, plastic water bottles, food miles, the Arctic meltdown, and so on.
She also brought up an article that pissed me off to no end, Do We Really Need a Few Billion Locavores? Well, there's only a very short time within the long history of life on earth that anyone was NOT a locavore. Clearly it worked pretty well when everyone on the planet at locally and seasonally. But the writer of the article made a bad yet expensive batch of homemade local ice cream and because his experience pissed him off, he thinks locavores are dumb. Well, buddy - just because you suck at making ice cream doesn't mean the rest of us can't do our part in fighting global warming and enjoy eating great food as we do it.
Way to go Kerry! Great reply to the New York Times. Now if only their grouchy writers will read it :) |
