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Home groan: I'm all for thinking globally and eating locally, but I draw the line at free-range squirrel pate.

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Not since Homo erecti were bringing down woolly mammoths with atlatls has eating been such an exhausting activity. No longer is it enough to never eat anything with a face or a carbohydrate; now you're supposed to consume only food that has been produced within a few hundred miles of your home. "Locavores," as propagators of this philosophy are called (and not just because they know many tasty ways to prepare locusts), will give you lots of excellent arguments for going local: Your food will taste better; you'll be keeping money in the local economy; you'll know how your meat and poultry are raised. Chickens in giant factory farms, they tell us, have a particularly bleak time of it. They spend their lives crammed into tight enclosures. They never see the sun, walk on grass, or have sex. They are pumped full of unnatural chemicals and made to produce around-the-clock. Can't the same be said of Dell employees? I don't believe I should let...

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