He actually mentions taste very early on, but explains why he doesn't focus on it:
"There are many good reasons for eating local — freshness, purity,
taste, community cohesion and preserving open space — but none of
these benefits compares to the much-touted claim that eating local
reduces fossil fuel consumption."
> If not it's just ammunition for reactionaries and curmudgeons to aim
> at those who use food miles to attempt to mitigate some of the
> damages of a modern lifestyle. Hardly something worth cheering.
No doubt you're right that they will attempt this, but the loony commissars will spin such studies regardless...
Like many others, I trust environmentalists (and the left) only so far as I believe they're telling me the sensible truth before the commissars do.
Tayssir