locavore

[loh-kuh-vawr, ‐vohr]

noun

a person who makes an effort to eat food that is grown, raised, or produced locally, usually within 100 miles of home.

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Origin of locavore

2005; loca(l) + -vore, on the model of carnivore, herbivore

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Examples from the Web for locavore

Contemporary Examples

These are the standard selling points of the craft-distilling movement, with its locavore lingo, terroir talk, and handmade hype.
Your ‘Craft’ Rye Whiskey Is Probably From a Factory Distillery in Indiana
Eric Felten
July 28, 2014
Food critic Todd Kliman exposes the ridiculous double standard of the locavore movement and how they ignore great American wines.
The Locavore Wine Hypocrisy
Todd Kliman
July 8, 2010
Why is it that locavore restaurants serve food from the next farm over, but wine from France?
The Locavore Wine Hypocrisy
Todd Kliman
July 8, 2010

Word Origin and History for locavore

n.

one who eats only locally grown or raised food, by 2001, from local + ending abstracted from carnivore, etc., ultimately from Latin vorare "to devour" (see voracity).

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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper