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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Home Grown Food - How it benefits!
I feel very strongly towards locally and organically grown food. My family doesn't usually eat as local as much as I would hope, which contributed a bit towards my carbon total. Every year, agriculture contributes almost around 56 million megatons of Co2 (according to nytimes.com) which causes the earths temperature to rise. Right now, the earth has gone up by 2 degrees Celsius making many organisms to go extinct.
If you eat home grown food, it can not only benefit your health but also the amount of carbon released. This is because, it's more nutritious and can save you money. The University of New Hampshire also writes that because there is more time put into the food, it also contains more vitamin D.