Trying to Eat Only Food Grown Within 100 Miles

No tea

No chocolate

No coffee (!!!)

No sugar

No wheat

No citrus

No rice

No avocados

No lettuce

No corn

I guess I'll just live on shrimp and wood pulp.

I really admire the principle here, but it's a non starter for me. Go without coffee ???????. Anyone got a recipe for erzats coffee (nuts or something like that).

No offence to any writers who frequent Shenactedy (or it's citizens), but is it safe to eat duck in that locality ? It sounds like buying fresh caught fish in Chernobyl. Joking aside, I live near an Etherville nuclear plant and eat fish every day (they like the heat from the thing).

Yeah, that's great until winter. Sounds like a good way to go vitamin deficient to me. There is a reason why the death rate in first world countries got a lot lower in the last century. It's called trade....

Rather than a restriction on consuming foodstuffs grown within 100 miles, the goal should be to eat the food grown most efficiently. There is a reason certain crops and livestock are produced in a given region, namely the region can support the growth of certain crops based on climate and soil.

The individuals using the 100 mile diet are either out for publicity or have no clue how life really works. Chances are the food they consume cost more in real terms (economically and ecologically) than the food consumed by the rest of us.

One piece of advice for Dick Shave...read up on scurvy and other diet related ailments so you'll recognize the warning signs when they start to show up in you and the other 100 mile dieters.

[Shaking my head in disbelief] In the immortal words of Charlie Brown, "Good Grief".

What's the purpose of this stunt? Reducing energy consumption from the movement of goods? Supporting local farmers, growers, breeders, hunters, etc. to ward off urban sprawl? I'd like to think the diversity in our diet has contributed greatly in nearly doubling the average life span over the last 400 years. They are not the only folks out there wanting to turn back the clocks . . .

I'd like to think the diversity in our diet has contributed greatly in nearly doubling the average life span over the last 400 years.

That may be so. In the West.

I don't ever feel guilty for our prosperity. We earned it. When the "West" does well, we pull the rest of the world along too. Sure, not to the same degree as that would be impossible, but Western progress does help the other parts of the world as well.

I absolutely love it. I will do my part to get this to the local news.

(I have a dice and drinking buddy from an earlier life who is news anchor)

I would love to see other areas make a go of this.

cr3

What? Huh....what's that, no coffee! No sushi. No I.B.C. rootbeer!!

STOP THE PRESSES!!!