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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To me, most food is good with an exception of some vegetables. Organic fruits and vegetables are better than all of the processed items. Fruit & vegetable factories may be good for producing food that is storable incase of earthquakes, but there is a downside since it has many chemicals. Having a garden is the best way to keep the climate where it should be. You never know what you are eating when you take a bite of a fruit cup or anything else processed. I do not have a garden at my house, but there is a living lab at my school. I would prefer not to have a garden because of all of the animals that get to the plants.
I agree with you Bryce Korrece. Gardening is a great way to eat fresh foods, and it will reduce carbon footprints. Another efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and eat fresh is by going to and supporting local farmers' markets. Food transported from farmers' markets is relatively local, so it does not emit as much gas as getting food from somewhere out of state.
Bryce is absolutely correct. In addition, I think foods like GMOs should be limited too. About 88% of corn is genetically modified. (http://organic.lovetoknow.com/GMO_Statistics). If we can cut down on GMOs and use less chemicals like Bryce said, our carbon footprint would be a lot smaller.
While I don’t want to want to condone GMO’s, necessarily (the long-term effects of frankenfoods on the human body are mostly unknown by virtue of the fact that they haven’t been around that long), the short-term effects have certainly shown to be beneficial for pesticide and land use, which in turn lowers the crops' carbon footprints - the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) found that in 2011, 1.7 billion kg less carbon dioxide was put into the atmosphere because of decreased use of pesticides and herbicides.