How much does eating locally-produced food help the climate problem? What are the other potential environmental and social benefits of eating locally-grown/produced food? Do you have a food garden in your school or at home? If not, do you want one?
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Eating/Buying Locally Grown Foods
Eating locally-produced foods not only helps us but it also helps our planet. Local foods are often safer for us to eat because smaller farms tend to use less chemicals than large factory farms even if the food they are growing isn't organic. Also, according to this article http://environment.about.com/od/greenli … _grown.htm ,it tastes better! The article says that farmers who primarily sell their produce to local customers don't have to make the packing, shipping, and transportation of their products their top priority, which allows them to ensure freshness and taste. Buying locally-produced foods can reduce global warming. Food from far away places has to be transported to you which uses a lot of gas. If you buy local foods there isn't a need for transportation.