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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Most large supermarkets import cheap food from abroad. In some cases it has been transported thousands of km to the supermarket. If home grown food was purchased by the supermarkets this would dramatically reduce the amount of fuel used and consequently the amount of pollution created.
If we consumed locally produced seasonal foods instead of out of season foods - again this would reduce our carbon footprint.
My family, for eample, has a vegetable garden therefore many products such as potatoes, tomatoes, carrots and many other vegetables/fruit are produced by us and we don't need to buy them.
I totally agree with you. i would be better to have all natural food to help our carbon footprints and to have good food.
and no pesticides released into the envirnment
Thank you! I really appreciate your comments, it's nice to know that there is someone else who is aware of this problem.
We have a big garden at home and we grow our own vegetables. We don't use any pesticides. I think that it's nonsense to grow your own vegetables and to use pesticides, because it would be better if you would buy them in the supermarket then.
I agree with you. We don't have a garden at home, so we don't grow our own vegetables but we get them from a local farmer's market or from our family who grow their own food. My mom and I always make the effort to only buy things from Slovenian producers (since we come from Slovenia) and support local farmers. The food is more natural this way and I believe the less food you buy in the supermarket, the better it is. If I just think from where the food came from and how much time it was in containers on ships before it arrived on the shelves, it makes me sick. It's important to support locals and, if you have a chance, grow your own food.
i totally agree with you . we have a big garden too and we also grow our own food and vegetables . we dont use any pesticides , all produts are eko
I think that home grown food is much better than food in supermarkets. At our home we have our own garden and our vegetable is very good and food from supermarkets is very bad and it's too expensive,too.