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For me, locally sourced food is not at all about the carbon footprint, it's about keeping and creating jobs in areas that historically produced food and most importantly of all to me, freshness and variety.
I would agree with this and thought that reading this post corresponded nicely with reading syncretic's post about the Apples. Also, for me the local food "movement" is as much about being social as it is about food. Going to coops, belonging to CSA's and going to your local farmers market are all really social things. Going to your major grocery chain, isn't. Like you say, "relationships are formed," there is certainly a value in that.