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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Gardens at home and at school
Locally grown food helps the climate problems because there is less transportation of food and Carbon Dioxide Emissions being put in the air. Other benefits of locally grown food is they are more fresh. I have a garden in my backyard and we also have one at school. We eat the food we grow and home and also at school, we do not use pesticides or anything that can harm the air or the plants. Everything is 100% organic and fresh.
I agree with this, if I was able to grow plants I would, but sadly I have no back garden. I did, however have a vegetable garden back in Australia, I tried to grow as much as possible there in order to avoid pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and etc. I also somewhat disagree with this, although pesticides and other chemicals used on crops are bad for the environment they were created for a reason. For example, if one farmer were to stop using pesticides altogether he/she would lose business and therefore go bankrupt, this is because pesticides get rid of 'pests' to increase the amount of food deemed 'consumable'. If this one farmer were to stop using them she/he would lose business because of higher prices and eventually have to go back to using pesticides.
Although pesticides have negative effects, there is no way to effectively get rid of them without deeming them illegal, which is in itself extremely ineffective.