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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Growing Foods at Home
Growing food at home can not only save you money but it is also better for the environment. A lot of carbon is produced from packaging and transporting foods, this problem can be reduced or eliminated if people start growing food at home. Many food is packaged in plastic which is very bad to our planet as well. If lots of people around the world do this, it can make a very large positive effect on earth.
This it totally true, and at my house my little brother grows potatoes and other vegetables. We eat them at dinner and they don't actually taste bad, so if everyone was able to do this then (like you said) the carbon footprint for transportation/packaging would drop, as less vegetables are needed for families. Another thing is that when you grow your own food it could cost less than buying packaged food, and you also get to see what goes into it, because some companies use chemicals or other bad things to enhance the growing vegetables.
Agreed! Not only is growing food at ones home healthier but it can also help lower ones carbon footprint. All the plastic and packaging is incredible bad for the environment as usually it gets thrown into a garbage yard.