{"id":10269,"date":"2012-07-02T15:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T19:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=10269"},"modified":"2012-07-03T16:29:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T20:29:46","slug":"locavore-living-maybe-its-good-maybe-its-bad-maybe-its-even-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/07\/02\/locavore-living-maybe-its-good-maybe-its-bad-maybe-its-even-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"Locavore Living: Maybe It&#8217;s Good, Maybe It&#8217;s Bad, Maybe It&#8217;s Even Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week StateImpact New Hampshire introduces part two of our series &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/07\/02\/monadnock-region-snapshot-a-growing-local-food-movement-doesnt-translate-to-prosperity\/\" target=\"_blank\">Getting By, Getting Ahead<\/a>.&#8221; As you may have seen, reporter Amanda Loder has a blog post about the hurdles facing farmers in New Hampshire, despite the local food movement. With that in mind, we thought we&#8217;d point to two other stories in the news media today. \u00a0One,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/02\/us\/small-scale-farmers-creating-a-new-profit-model.html?_r=1&amp;src=me&amp;ref=general\" target=\"_blank\"> from the New York Times<\/a>, says the slow food movement has created a slow <em>money<\/em> movement, which actually as the potential to innovate and grow not just local agriculture, but local economies:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A looming shortage of migrant workers, with\u00a0<a title=\"link to Pew Hispanic article on Mexican immigration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/2012\/04\/23\/net-migration-from-mexico-falls-to-zero-and-perhaps-less\/?src=prc-headline\">fewer Mexicans coming north<\/a>\u00a0in recent years, could create a kind of rural-urban divide if it continues, with mass-production farms that depend on cheap labor losing some of their price advantages over locally grown food, which tends to be more expensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the blog Grist has a<a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/locavore\/local-haterade-authors-say-locavores-do-more-harm-than-good\/\" target=\"_blank\"> post today<\/a> featuring an economist and a geography professor, whose book Locavore&#8217;s Dilemma claims that widespread adoption of locavorism &#8220;<em>can only result in higher costs and increased poverty, greater food insecurity, less food safety and much more significant environmental damage\u00a0<\/em>than is presently the case\u201d [emphasis theirs].<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s right? You decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week StateImpact New Hampshire introduces part two of our series &#8220;Getting By, Getting Ahead.&#8221; As you may have seen, reporter Amanda Loder has a blog post about the hurdles facing farmers in New Hampshire, despite the local food movement. With that in mind, we thought we&#8217;d point to two other stories in the news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10306,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10269\/revisions\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}