locavore
English
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Etymology
loca(l) + -vore. Coined by Jen Maiser, Jessica Prentice, Sage Van Wing, and DeDe Sampson, co-founders of the “Locavores” web site.[1][2]
Noun
locavore (plural locavores)
- One who tries to eat only locally grown foods.
- 2007 March 12, U.S. Government Printing Office, quoting James Daley, 2007 Farm Bill Opportunities for Vermont and the Northeast: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, →ISBN, Statement of James Daley, Campaign Director, Northern Forest Alliance, Stowe, Vermont, page 33:
- So I do think that there is a wonderful opportunity for us to find a carbon-neutral energy source where it is not only a beneficial model environmentally but we are sort of becoming forest and energy locavores, if you will, and so that is what we are trying to establish through this idea of a community wood energy program where we would be using, you know, town forests to actually supply town energy needs so that people can actually see the costs and the impacts of where their energy is coming from.
- 2007, Leslie Garrett, The Virtuous Consumer: Your Essential Shopping Guide for a Better, Kinder, Healthier World (and one our kids will thank us for!), New World Library, →ISBN, page 54:
- Become a Locavore
Try to eat foods grown close to your home, which helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport as well as supporting your neighbors. […]
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from English locavore.
Pronunciation
Adjective
locavore (feminine locavore, masculine plural locavores, feminine plural locavores)
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Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
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