Eating locally produced food helps the climate problem immensely. The environmental and social benefits of eating locally grown food would be the amount of transportation that would be cut down. There would also be less emissions of CO2/smoke in the atmosphere, and would use less fossil fuels in the environment. According to a post by Michigan State, eating locally grown food is safer for you and the environment, because you can track where your food was grown, how it was grown, and it provides more nutrients and flavor than food shipped across the country. Some social benefits include helping local economy such as people in farmers markets and small businesses.
http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/7_benefits … ocal_foods