The Locavore Movement

          A community is where people gather, interacts and obtain things in a very simple and easy manner. The locavore movement provides benefits to one's community, such as healthier foods and helps the environment. Not only does it make it convenient to shop around the town but the foods have more nutritional values, it helps the environment, and benefits the economy.

          There is a difference in nutritional value between foods that are grown locally versus to those foods that are shipped overseas. Not only are the foods grown locally fresher, considering that it was harvested less than 24 hours ago, it also taste better than the shipped products as well. When you are given a choice to pick a fresh ripe apple or an apple that has been brought from a different country that lost its flavor; you would of course pick the healthier and riper fruit rather than the foreign apple. I once bought cherries at a local market before and it was amazing. The other cherries from Ralphs and Vons maybe decent but the local market fruits were out of this world.

          The locavore movement is also helping the world and its environment. When buying locally there is no need for the long transportation of the produce. If there is less fossil fuel in the air, the cleaner and safer our community gets. If the quality of the air gets better, the fresher the fruits will be. Eating locally will protect us from bio-terrorism since “food with less distance to travel from farm to place has less susceptibility to harmful contamination.”(Source A) If more people start to join the locavore movement the mass production companies will not be needed, which stops a part of the fossil fuel pollution, and helps the environment.

          The locavore movement also benefits the economy. The biggest achievement made by the locavore movement is the revival of the small towns. There was a 20% increase of small farms in the past 6 years because of buying locally. (Source E) Not only are the small famers now getting help from the government it is also “gradually shaping the business of growing and supplying food to Americans.” (Source D) If people start to buy locally more and more, the economies will start to improves as well.

           Buying locally has provides people with huge benefits for themselves and their community. The foods have more nutritional values than foreign foods, it stops a big part of the fossil fuel pollution, and improves the economies as well. Buy locally, there is nothing to lose.