Where Is Local And What Is Exotic?

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.