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t’s become predictable. At nearly regular intervals, someone, somewhere, will decide it’s time to write another article “debunking” the local food movement. The latest installment is by Steve Sexton, posted on the Freakonomics blog (which also treated us to a previous post called “Do We Really Need a Few Billion Locavores?”) And we must not forget the leading anti-locavore, James McWilliams, who gave us “The Locavore Myth” and many other, similar articles. The arguments are stale, shallow and often incorrect. But if you enjoy the flavor of organic heirloom tomatoes, fresh picked from the farm, here’s how to read these articles without filling with guilt that your love of local food is doing the planet in and starving people in the Global South. Myth #1: People who eat local eat the same diet as those who don’t.