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Regarding eating locally, a strong driver to make that happen in the near future is the fact of peak oil. Many people do not know that the greatest amount of oil to ever be produced worldwide is being produced right now. Demand keeps rising. Supplies will soon begin to decrease and prices will go ever higher, as will food prices. Big agriculture will be a vicitim of its own excess; it is highly dependent upon cheap energy, now a thing of the past. Food production will become a totally local endeavor since the transportation of food long distances will also be a thing of the past.

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