So this article is basically asking people to give up thousands of years of progress, for things they can't prove? It's every bit as evil as a religion.

its not asking anything, did it say 'you must stop eating these foods'? to me it just looked like its stating what foods are bad for this planet, not all proven facts but the majority of them were. And yes its thousands of years progress, but has it been progress in the right direction?

Absolutely, buy local. But every regulation handed down from the FDA makes it harder and harder for small family farms to comply. Wish they would just get out of our business and let the buyers get to know their farmers. Humans are smart enough to do their own research and make up their own minds.

I agree. Small farms are desirable. I used to live in a town that had a wonderful farmers' market 3 times a week. The town was not a large one, but drew from a river-valley farming area that brought farmer-vendors who had a HUGE and wonderful variety of produce to the Market. I shopped there regularly during the growing season (May-October). My family had to move to another city, and the local farmers' market here is only a shadow of the one we "left". I regret that.

Hello? Obviously, humans are the biggest problem. Get rid of all of them and let the planet go back to its natural state. End of problem. Or wake up and stop reading this thinly veiled attempts at brainwashing, and learn to think for yourselves.

You say rice is bad, but yet you tell people to buy out of the bins..... Hhhhmmmmm.......

Eating local and shopping at farmer's markets sounds great on a warm, sunny, summer day. Ever try it at 10pm in January in Buffalo, or Chicago, or Fargo?

It's not much more fun in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona in July at 4:00 in the afternoon.

I live in AZ - we have our farmer's market 8 am - Noon in the summer - or indoors, depending on location. In summer, produce comes down from Northern AZ; in winter, it comes up from the desert. Also greenhouse grown - can still be local & organic. It's possible - takes a little more effort than visiting the Safeway, but the taste of , in-season produce grown within a day's drive (maximum) away is totally worth it.

Forgot one thing all the vegetation that is bad for the earth produced oxygen, see how long the inhabitants of earth can survive when it is gone. People that make these list and expect people to buy into it are amazing and all they know is what is in books. How much real research do the do? Justify your numbers on amount of water and resourses used up or destroyed.

i totally agree sometimes these so called 'experts' are fearmongers that have nothing to go on but what they have gleaned out of of a book.

i totally agree sometimes these so called 'experts' are fearmongers that have nothing to go on but what they have gleaned out of of a book.

The bottom line is the Earth is bad for the Earth, no matter what you grow or what is grown naturally is bad for the planet. Animals and humans fart and is bad for the green house effect? Everything walking or consuming animals and most vegetables are bad for Earth! what would the impact on the Earth if it was a perfect world? Economic and ecologically distroyed.

A lot of 'coulds' on the GMO slide, with nothing established by any studies. This kind of ideology driven nonsense has gone on for decades. And the idea that the bulk of the world's population could live off organic foods is not rational. Pesticides are not used for the hell of it. They are used because they're effective. Organic crops are far more expensive, take up more land to grow, and studies show they have no advantage nutritionally.

This is a totally unrealistic list. Ever try eating healthy? Too darn expensive to even buy one meal, let alone weekly supplies of groceries.

Make the prices cheaper, and people will eat healthy. And meat has been around since man learned to cook- meat isn't bad for the planet - the way we cultivate it is.

You just don't get it...It is price vs. cost. If you think that it is too darn expensive to buy REAL food then you will pay the ultimate price by not being healthy (most likely you will pay a bunch for medication/doctors/hospital) not to mention shorter life span...The real cost is the quality and length of your life...You are going to pay one way or another. The choice is yours. Ignorance is a bliss:)

This is a totally unrealistic list. Ever try eating healthy? Too darn expensive to even buy one meal, let alone weekly supplies of groceries.

Make the prices cheaper, and people will eat healthy. And meat has been around since man learned to cook- meat isn't bad for the planet - the way we cultivate it is.

Supply and Demand. Demand (population) keeps going up, while supply keeps going down.

I grew up selling vegetables at farmers markets. There is no guarantee that the fruits and vegetables sold at these places are not the same ones sold in the grocery store. When you go to a farmers market you must use a bit of skepticism about what you buy. If you are looking at a table of fruit/veggies and it has stickers on it, it is likely not local. If all the fruit or veggies are extremely uniform, it is also a sign that they are perhaps not local. Be smart about your "buying local".

This list contains many of the products that I use everyday. This is a stupid list. How can the average city dweller eat locally grown anything. the only thing that is locally grown is weeds, grass (not the smoking kind), and algae.

And I noticed that at least 4 of the items are "the most water intensive crop or process."

So basically stop eating....

Really. Come on. Really ! This is the most ridiculous slop I have read in a long time. According to this article you can only eat local, organic Chard, Spinach and maybe organic tofu. Oh yeah you can eat free range chickens as long as they don't eat any corn. Pretty much everything else harms the planet.

We should eat local and organic as much as possible, it is better for us and better for the environment. We eat wat too much in North America, so it is better to reduce quantity and concentrate on quality. Plus, notice that most of the food mentioned are bad for us anyway: hight fructose corn syrup, genetically modified food, food with palm oil, fast food, white bread, packaged and processed food (with too much salt, bad fat and sugar), meat (hormones, antibiotic and fat), sugar.