English

Noun

locavorism ‎(uncountable)

1. The practice of eating food that is produced locally.
   • 2012, Steven Poole, You Aren't What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture, ISBN 1908526327:

     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.

   • 2014, Benjamin Zeller, ‎Marie Dallam, & ‎Reid Neilson, Religion, Food, and Eating in North America, ISBN 023153731X, page 298:

     But intentional locavorism as a phenomenon is quite recent, and only exists within and against the context of the globalized corporate food market.

   • 2015, Daniel Thomas Cook & ‎J. Michael Ryan, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies, ISBN 0470672846, page 387:

     Culturally, locavorism is often framed as a form of ethical consumer resistance to the control of food by transnational corporations, as well as a personally rewarding activity.