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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Eating local food is better for the climate because when we eat locally we not only help our communities businesses but we also lower CO2 levels. The reason for this is because when we don't eat locally different aspects of getting food from elsewhere can pollute the air; such as the transportation to get it here or the factories used to package the food. It is alo better to eat locally because the food is fresher and it less likely for it to become contaminated.
I agree. Eating locally sourced food is good for you and for the environment. When you eat locally grown food not as much energy has to be put into transporting it by plane, train or truck. This puts less CO2 in the atmosphere. Also, there are less preservatives in local food because it takes less time to be transported to a buyer. Another way to impact your footprint while eating locally is to eat a vegetarian diet. It is a lot easier to find locally sourced fruits and vegetables than local meat and meat takes a lot of carbon to produce. Here is a link with an interesting chart showing how much carbon it takes to produce each food and how far you would have to drive to produce the same amount of carbon:
http://www.greeneatz.com/foods-carbon-footprint.html
I agree with what you said. Eating locally would definitely help decrease the carbon being released into the atmosphere. According to http://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-diox … r-second/, all the world's combined nations combined pumped nearly 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels. Growing your own food would also help. You would be eating healthier and help lower CO2 levels.
I concur with your ideas about eating locally. I also believe that purchasing and eating locally grown food benefits local businesses and the environment. We could lower the CO2 emissions dramatically if we buy food that is grown locally. This would happen because there will be less of a distance for the food to travel, whether by boats, planes, or trucks. So there will be less C02 emissions from the transportation to be released. I also think that growing fruits and vegetables at home or at school will have a beneficial impact on the community. The home grown food will be fresh, healthy, and the process will release no CO2 into the environment.