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locavorism

locavorism noun: the practice of eating food that is produced locally.

Noun

locavorism (uncountable)

  1. The practice of eating food that is produced locally.
    • From a global perspective, locavorism begins to look like a narcissistic pseudomoralistic club for the wealthy to keep food and money circulating among their own tight little cliques.2012, Steven Poole, You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture, →ISBN
    • But intentional locavorism as a phenomenon is quite recent, and only exists within and against the context of the globalized corporate food market.2014, Benjamin Zeller, Marie Dallam, Reid Neilson, Religion, Food, and Eating in North America, →ISBN, page 298

Origin of locavorism

From locavore + -ism.

Questions about locavorism

What does locavorism mean?
Locavorism means the practice of eating food that is produced locally.
What part of speech is locavorism?
Locavorism is a noun.

Words near locavorism in the dictionary

  1. locator outer marker
  2. locator outer markers
  3. locators
  4. locavore
  5. locavores
  6. locavorism
  7. locavorous
  8. LOCC
  9. LoCced
  10. loccer
  11. loccers

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