--- title: There’s No Such Thing as Local Food description: There’s no such thing as local food, don't go to law school and more. canonical: https://time.com/4432902/theres-no-such-thing-as-local-food/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-01T16:00:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:38.695Z article:section: Ideas og:title: There's No Such Thing As Local Food og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4432902/theres-no-such-thing-as-local-food/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: There's No Such Thing As Local Food twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # There's No Such Thing as Local Food by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 1, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 1, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**There’s no such thing as local food.**](http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/08/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-local-food/) By Dan Stone in National Geographic’s The Plate **2\.** [**Don’t go to law school.**](http://www.vox.com/2015/6/5/8724555/should-i-go-to-law-school) By Amanda Taub in Vox **3\.** [**We all know sitting is bad for you. But fidgeting can help (really).**](http://time.com/4045317/fitness-sitting-work/) By Alexandra Sifferlin in Time **4\.** [**We need a sexual revolution in economics.**](https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2015/jun/02/we-need-a-sexual-revolution-in-economics) By Victoria Bateman in the Guardian **5\.** [**Since 9/11, America — and everyone in it — assumes danger is imminent. What is that doing to us?**](http://fusion.net/story/200747/living-in-code-yellow/) By Bruce Schneier in Fusion  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4432902/theres-no-such-thing-as-local-food/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4432902/theres-no-such-thing-as-local-food/"},"headline":"There's No Such Thing as Local Food","datePublished":"2016-08-01T16:00:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:38.695Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4432902/theres-no-such-thing-as-local-food/","keywords":["Innovation","Economics","Food","Anxiety","Sitting"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4432902/theres-no-such-thing-as-local-food/","name":"There's No Such Thing as Local Food"}}]}] ```