Definition of "locavores" []

• Plural form of locavore. (noun)

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• "Critics of big industrial farms say that the latest foodborne outbreak has given a boost to the local food movement, which promotes buying produce from nearby farmers (advocates are sometimes called locavores)."
• "For the last five or six years, local food eaters -- dubbed locavores -- have been asking if the produce they are eating is grown locally or trucked into cities by vehicles that burn fossil fuels."
• "Many so-called locavores subscribe to the 100-mile diet, which requires that one "eat nothing --- or almost nothing --- but sustenance drawn from within 100 miles of their home.""