The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Mazda Has No Plans for Electric Vehicles”–headline, Detroit News, Jan. 19
- “Inauguration Cell Traffic Doesn’t Cripple Networks”–headline, Channel Wire, Jan. 20
- “Joe Biden Sworn In as 47th Vice President”–headline, Associated Press, Jan. 20
- “Surveyed Scientists Agree Global Warming Is Real”–headline, CNN.com, Jan. 20
Think Locally, Act Globally
From the New York Times:
The local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers. Now, thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too.
A new start-up, Foodzie, is an online farmers market where small, artisan food producers and growers can sell their products. Foodies in Florida, say, can order raw, handcrafted pepperjack cheese from Traver, Calif., or organic, fair-trade coffee truffles from Boulder, Colo.
What a great idea! And why not take it one step further? Farmers could band together and form large organizations–call them “corporations”–to grow and distribute mass quantities of food. Retail operations could be set up in every town; they would be sort of super farmers markets, or “supermarkets” for short. Soon everyone everywhere would be able to buy local food from all over the world!
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