What if Local Food Isn't Actually Best? - Food - The Atlantic

In this posting on The Atlantic's food blog (What if Local Food Isn't Actually Best? - Food - The Atlantic), I think the thought falls into the no duh category, but I could be missing something. The central idea is that we should not become obsessed with being locavores to the extreme that we are not supporting a regional approach -- as if the only choices were either national (and international) distribution or eating foods produced only within 100 (or 150 or 200) miles from our homes. I tend to distrust such binary choices to begin with, but it is worth at least explicitly and constantly challenging the idea that we only have two choices.