How Lo(cal) Can You Go? Is Eating Turtles OK?
Who could possibly find anything bad to say about eating locally? After all, what’s the downside to dining on wild blackberries, dandelion greens, home-grown tomatoes and fresh-caught alligator snapping turtles?
Wait, what was that last one again?
Well, here in this corner of Northwest Florida I call home (and they don’t call it the “Redneck Riviera” for nothing), that’s a discussion that’s been raging this week. Seems a family from Jay, an inland (i.e., far from the touristy beaches) community, recently caught a 100-pound alligator snapping turtle … and decided to eat it.
As admirable as Alisa Smith’s and J. B. MacKinnon’s goal is in 
(2007, Harmony Books), I don’t think I would want to strictly repeat their experiment myself. Twelve whole months of eating nothing but food grown, raised or made within a 100-mile radius of where you live sounds both difficult and time-consuming. Plus, I’m not 
