It is becoming more difficult to identify what "local" means. In a book Ecological Intelligence the author writes about tomatores grown locally in greenhouses near Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The R&D for the tomatoes was conducted in France, the seeds grown in China and transported back to France, whre they were treated and shipped to Ontario, where the seedbeds are sprouted. Finally these seedbeds are trucked to Quebec, where the final plant is cultivated and the tomatoes harvested. It appears that even a 'local' tomato has a global past.
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