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locavore 

Noune. A person whose diet focuses on foods grown and produced nearby, typically 100 miles. See also 100-mile diet.
Robin wanted to be a locavore, so he only bought food that was grown on local farms.
locavore by JC Costello September 7, 2006
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locavore 

n. Individual who dwells exclusively in one location forever.
"Excuse me, locavore. Could you direct me to the nearest gas station."

locovore 

the practice of eating food that is grown locally.
Origin: Almaden, San Jose, Santa Cruz, SFO
Being a locovore decreases the amount of greenhouse gases, as the food consumed is sourced locally, instead of being trucked in to my city.
locovore by RexDerf December 13, 2007

localvores

Also called 'culinarians', food activists, ecogastronomists... and refers to culinazis who advocate traditional local food-harvesting/-making methods (ecogastronomy/ Slow Food/ cuisine de terroir...), in third world countries and other authentic 'food cultures'.
In a return to the early agricultural societies, these localvores offer to buy ethinc people's food stock and interfer with their simple agrarian lives, in what has been adeptly called culinary colonialism!
Localvores are a bunch of quacks: they turn a blind eye to the battle against the 'termination technology' of LMOs (living-modified organisms), GM food and the necrosceince of 'nutrigenomics' that the true activist fooderati warn one day might lead the Earth to 'mutation meltdown' from the ubiquitous 'gene smog' that's already choking our delicate, pristine environment.

Localvore 

Someone who only consumes produce native to the country or the area they live in.
Nicole is a localvore; she chooses to eat locally produced fruits and vegetables rather than imported ones.
Localvore by Psyx August 26, 2017

Locovore 

Someone who only eats insane things, like locally grown humanely raised pillbug larva.
Sarah went to the farmer's market and bought some homemade spider eyeball jam. She'd made a real effort this year to be a locovore.
Locovore by Meowolog April 13, 2010