The truth about ‘local’ food in US supermarkets: ‘It’s a marketing gimmick’

The term doesn’t mean that much any more, and there are other, more important factors to consider when selecting foodIf you walk into a Whole Foods in Oakland and pick up a container of non-dairy yoghurt marked “local”, you might be surprised to learn that though the company is headquartered nearby in San Francisco, the cashews the yoghurt is made of come from Vietnam, more than 7,500 miles (12,000km) away, or Ivory Coast, about 7,300 miles in the opposite direction.This yoghur