We are always encouraged to buy
local. Apparently, it is good for the
local economy. But
local can be a very loose term.
Local can be relative to your town, city, district, province, country, region, or continent. I can imagine that
local can even be relative to our hemisphere, planet, solar system, or galaxy. I sure we can talk about our
local sun’s position in the
local galaxy.
Let’s assume you want pork sausage, but you don't like the
local pigs. You have the options of importing
exotic pigs from somewhere not
local or you can relocate to a place that falls outside the area that you define as
local. Both options can be rather costly while pigs are just pigs, wherever they are. It is not as if the non-local pigs have three rows of tits. I mean, why buy a pig if you can buy sausage over the counter at the supermarket?
Now what happens if the
exotic pigs are just as bad as (or worse than) the
local pigs? It happened before! You cannot fall back on the
local pigs now. You have already offended the
local pigs and, so it is unlikely that they’d be interested in dealing with you now.
The prospects of relocation are even bleaker and more complicated. How long before what was
exotic before, becomes
local? Chances are that, if you were not happy with the
local pigs at your previous location, you are bound to become unhappy with the
exotic pigs at the new location when they become the
local pigs. I mean, just where is
local?
Once again, you cannot fall back on the original
local pigs because you already shot your mouth off about them. Remember, crawling back will be admitting that you were wrong. We don’t do that, do we?
It is very likely that, after relocating, you will end up importing
exotic pigs from where you were in the first place. They are not
local anymore, are they? Only now, you have the additional costs of transportation fees and import duties, where you could have had the now
exotic pigs that used to be the
local pigs, at cut-price rates.
Another good bet is to produce your own pigs… though you will need a good boar to compensate for any shortcomings in the existing female breeding stock. They say Palestine is a save haven for pig farmers. Nobody will ever steal your pigs,
local or
exotic.
Methinks it will be a good idea to hide a dislike for the
local pigs lest an almost perfect
local pig turns up by chance. No point in alienating the self from the
local pigs until you found a suitable
exotic pig.
What is that saying again about the grass being greener on the other side?
Have a bumper of a day.
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