I think that if you create your own garden or get your food from a local farmer's market, you will be saving and helping out the environment. You also will feel safer eating food that you grew yourself, rather than eating food that was processed in factories.

I like your idea of creating your own garden. Creating your garden can help the environment. Growing your own food makes the food more healthy for your body. If you grow foods with seeds you can reuse the seeds to plant an apple etc.

Creating your own garden without using pesticides and chemicals is an ideal way to help the environment. In the long run it will save you money and it will be good for your health. By planting seeds, you help the bees, if you compost the food waste and using the soil from the compost you are helping out your vegetable to grow better and you are helping with slowing global warming by plants absorbing CO2. Even getting food from the farmers market is helping local businesses.

I definitely agree with your statement. It makes sense that if we buy and support local farms, then this gives back more to the environment. Farmers and sellers don't have to travel as far or ship their produce as far to their customers if they have a local business. Steve Cohen from the Observer argues, "According to the Council on the Environment of New York City (CENYC), 'Transporting food long distances uses tremendous energy: it takes 435 fossil-fuel calories to fly a 5 calorie strawberry from California to New York.'" I think that this information forces us to realize that our diets actually do make an impact. We should avoid our wants for the specialized produce from out of state and be happy with meeting our needs with local produce.

I agree with this. I believe that fresh produce can be much healthier and safer to eat than food purchased from a grocery store. Freshly grown food provides food without chemicals such as pesticides etc. This helps the environment because it is not being produced in factories which produce fossil fuels so growing locally is the way to go.

I agree with what you are saying and it is understandable that eating less processed foods will help out the environment greatly. I understand why you would feel safer eating less processed foods because of all the chemicals that come with the processing of certain foods. I like this alternative that you have suggested and it is a viable way to help out the environment that we live in.

I think that if we grow our foods on our own will help our environment so that we won't need the bad fuels from the factories and so that our foods are fully organic with no extra hormones. This will also contribute to us helping the air because we won't get the smoke from the factory buildings.

I agree with this. Growing our own food locally can eliminate the need for the transportation of food in trucks which releases Carbon Dioxide. Growing our own food can lead to the decrease of processed foods which is healthier for us and the environment. Growing your own food can decrease pesticides. Growing your own food is not only good for the environment it also saves you money. Business Insider says you can save up to $24,000. a year!
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I agree. When people grow their own food it encourages the people to become more healthy because they want to eat their own food. Because the food that they are growing is healthy, the people will have a more healthy diet. The fresh food will also provide humans with produce that contains no pesticides. Moreover, the large corporations that supply produce to humans will have to improve the quality of their products in order to compete with the local gardens.

I agree when you produce your own food from a garden you can ensure that the process of growing it is way more sanitary and healthy than in a factory. According to the link https://www.valuepenguin.com/how-much-we-spend-food Americans spend about 40% of their income on groceries every year. I think growing a garden is a good idea but many Americans lack the time to maintain a garden so they settle for processed food.

I agree as well. if people grow their own food, it can help eliminate the transportation food trucks releasing CO2  into the atmosphere. It also encourages people to eat healthier and live a healthier lifestyle. I also think that a good idea is to buy from local food markets if you aren't able to grow your own food because if its local it wasn't transported from far. Also if the food was locally grown or your grew it yourself, it wouldn't be processed in factories that let CO2 into the air. This helps our bodies and the atmosphere. Growing food yourself would also save money and time.