Are we becoming Locavores?

In addition to being an increasingly trendy word, the locavore is becoming an attitude; before, there was the fresh-attitude, completely outdated (not to say passé), now more and more people are turning to local production. We see it especially with the boom of AMAPs.

The question I was asking myself yesterday while picking up my basket was to see that more and more families are registered, and that now some are even on a waiting list. My question is, are we turning to local (and organic while we're at it) because of the "economic crisis" or is there a strong awareness that encourages supporting a small local producer who is either 100% organic or in conversion? Personally, I lean towards the second solution...
Will the locavore substitute their fair trade products (juice or fruit) with local products? Because it's true that a fair trade product comes from a country in the South, so to get to our plates it has crossed oceans and/or seas... and therefore, the preferred argument of fair trade detractors, it has emitted a lot of CO2... not to dwell on this point, the question I ask myself is: can we combine the two without a deep ambivalence? Because that's my case...

Or the locavore actively fights against out-of-season fruits imported into France, or in-season fruits also imported into France to the detriment of local products... that's why I started a war fight against Spanish strawberries... or Moroccan raspberries... but believe me, it's difficult for some to change...

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