Locavore Movement
The locavore movement has been ignited consisting of people that prefer to consume locally grown foods. According to locavores, locally grown foods are much healthier and contains more nutrition than foods in groceries. Local foods are processed and sold within a day, whereas grocery foods are take a long period of time to be and shipped, minimizing their nutritional value. Nonetheless, despite the claims pointing that being a locavore improves one’s health, it contains negative impacts in other aspects such as taking away the business of sub-saharan farmers, limiting resources, and increasing the risks of climate change.
Since locally produced goods were produced in a short amount of time and traveled a short distance, it is proven to be …show more content…
As mentioned in James E. McWilliam’s “On My Mind: The Locavore Myth” even though local farmers could get benefits from the locavore movement, the Sub-Saharan farmers on the other hand would suffer since most of their profits are came from shipping foods all year round (source C). For decades, these sub-Saharan have been shipping produce to far-away locations at the same time provided all sorts of varieties of varieties throughout the year; this is how they established and maintained their business. Though with the rise of locavore beliefs, it could greatly harm their business due to the accusations that were made against these farmers such as their foods are no longer nutritious and requires an excessive amount of energy. Actually, local products consume as much energy while they are being processed as it takes a lot of effort in producing them. For instance, their water, fertilizer usage, maintenance, and certain packaging techniques requires a massive amount of energy compared to transportation. Furthermore, many could anticipate that the method of producing is better for environment since they are grown naturally. In reality, the chart displayed on “The Problem of what we eat” indicated that the production is the main factor that affects the climate change instead of transportation by adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. That being said, locavore movement does improve the environment as other presumed. Instead, it adds more to the problems and could potentially create bigger
Since locally produced goods were produced in a short amount of time and traveled a short distance, it is proven to be …show more content…
As mentioned in James E. McWilliam’s “On My Mind: The Locavore Myth” even though local farmers could get benefits from the locavore movement, the Sub-Saharan farmers on the other hand would suffer since most of their profits are came from shipping foods all year round (source C). For decades, these sub-Saharan have been shipping produce to far-away locations at the same time provided all sorts of varieties of varieties throughout the year; this is how they established and maintained their business. Though with the rise of locavore beliefs, it could greatly harm their business due to the accusations that were made against these farmers such as their foods are no longer nutritious and requires an excessive amount of energy. Actually, local products consume as much energy while they are being processed as it takes a lot of effort in producing them. For instance, their water, fertilizer usage, maintenance, and certain packaging techniques requires a massive amount of energy compared to transportation. Furthermore, many could anticipate that the method of producing is better for environment since they are grown naturally. In reality, the chart displayed on “The Problem of what we eat” indicated that the production is the main factor that affects the climate change instead of transportation by adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. That being said, locavore movement does improve the environment as other presumed. Instead, it adds more to the problems and could potentially create bigger