Global Ethics Corner: Is Local Food More Ethical?

Oct 1, 2012

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With real economic benefits and perceived environmental ones, local food has been branded as an ethical alternative to the mass-produced variety. But critics point out that locavores may be forgetting crucial points about climate change and global poverty. Is local food really more moral?

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