Regenstein, however, argued that “many local growers are not trained to process food properly.”

Yeah, my local Farmer’s Market meat supplier doesn’t have the training to safely produce meat from downer cows the way feed-lot producers do. I’ll still take my grass finished beef, thanks.

The locavore lifestyle, he said, is “indulgent and hedonistic” when “three people drive their BMW for 30 miles to pick up 5 pounds of produce.”

My farmer’s market across the street from my grocery store. My CSA delivers to me & my neighbors. I walk out my backyard to my garden.

Higher yields per acre is more important than growing 20 different crops on a local farm, he declared. “We should use resources more wisely because we have over 6 billion people on this planet.”

A distributed food supply with crop diversity is a much wiser than corporate crop monoculture.

Regenstein is a dumbass.