When you eat locally grown food,  you are giving back to your own community. The benefits of locally grown food ensure healthy living, less Co2 levels, and helps the economy. You first ensure healthy living because in smaller farms you get better care of the food, meaning that the farmers only pick the freshest and healthiest produce. This is unlike non-local farms because they do not take as mush care as they should be with the produce that we eat. The big companies spray chemicals like pesticides on the produce and use shining polish to make the produce more desireable. These chemicals cause major health issues and result in mutations, such as cancer. Another example of why we would eat locally grown food is because co2 levels are lower when you buy local. Since it takes less time to drive to the local city, the cars do not take allot of fuel to get there. This results in lower co2 levels. My last example of why you should eat locally grown is because it helps the economy. Locally grown food helps the economy by local farmers getting more money. Farmers on average rece ive only 20 cents of each food dollar spent. This is because the rest of the money is going to transporting,  processing, packaging, refrigerating and marketing the food. Farmers who sell food to local customers receive the full dollar for each food dollar spent, But not only do the local farmers get more money they also are getting encouraged to use local farmland for farming. This is keeping development of new houses in a check, by also preserving open space for farming.