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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

More broad doesn't mean not local.  It means variety and Ireland and the 
potato famine are the perfect example of not relying on a single type of 
produce.  They wouldn't have needed to worry if they hadn't put all their 
eggs in one basket.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> I need facts on that. Food stability and security is greater when the
> source is spread more broadly. Think garden failure. Think the great
> potato failure in Europe. If we choose to rail at globalism we might
> start with out recent ancestors who left their caves and huts and
> crossed an ocean.
>
> Localism is important in terms of energy use and community health. I
> see globalism as the inevitable result of free enterprise and
> resultant free trade.