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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Growing your own food.
After taking a culinary class and seeing how much people depend on other people for food is scary. You really see this in effect right before a major disaster when all the grocery stores go out of stock. I feel that we should grow are own food to supply for us and are family that lives with you. I feel this would end the hunger in the world as well as people fighting for food. http://whosgreenaz.com/2011/02/01/grow- … vironment/
Hi Christopher,
I never thought about how dependent we are on others providing us food. As Americans, we do not think about where the food is coming from or how it is impacting the Earth. This is shown by the excessive use of non-biodegradable packaging and the terrible GMO’s injected in our food. By growing our own fruits and vegetables it would massively reduce the world’s carbon footprint. In addition, it would promote better eating habits. According to the American Heart Association “about every one in three American kids and teens is overweight or obese”. If every community had a local garden where everyone in the area could pick and grow food for the neighborhood; childhood and teen obesity would decrease dramatically, killing two birds with one stone.
More information on childhood obesity: http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLi … cnOodN941g