No matter what you eat, if you source foods locally, you minimize the transportation footprint, which may be better for the environment than a simple vegetarian diet that pays no regard to where the plants were harvested. Although that outcome depends on many factors whose efficiencies are continually in flux: Does the food move by boat, train, truck, or plane? How much food has spoiled along the way? Are the truck engines electric or internal combustion? How does the local electric company generate its power? And how arable does your region of the world happen to be?
