Veronica House

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463 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Dec

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And one thing that this raised was, okay, consumers are thinking they're supporting something that might not necessarily be the case.

But another thing that has struck me deeply was one restaurateur who considered himself an activist chef who

And he said, well, I'm forging relationships all over the world with small scale ethical producers.

I get my salmon from a fishery in Tasmania.

I get my strawberries from this woman in California.

I get my blueberries from this farm in Maine.

I'm forging these relationships.

Is that local?

Because these are small, little, small-scale ethical businesses.

How are consumers thinking about what they want to support?

And this blew me and my students away.

And so we were like, well, wait, if he's saying that's local, then what is local?

Is local about ethics or relationships, or is it miles-based?

It really...

I think was what raised the question initially for me and then for my students for years to come.

What is local food?

What does that mean?

The county had a different definition for local than the city.

And we looked at, I had my students look at media from across the state.

They looked at 90 media sources, which seemed to suggest that consumers wanted healthy, organic food.

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