The "food miles" issue: Why buying local products does matter

by William Charles Wright

Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) began, it's said, in Europe and Japan in the 1960's and was brought to the US in the mid-1980's. An innovation on the old idea of growing and trading produce locally, a CSA is not fun...read more

by wheatgerm

Buying local products, builds local economy, which in turn builds efficiency. This is a common sense solution to help build the morale of farmers across the country. First of all you know where the food comes from, which w...read more

by Lesley Rigg

Making your grocery products locally creates and sustains positive environmental outcomes. Through doing this you can preserve and create communities throughout the world, and allows you the individual to use your buying p...read more

by Amanda Digiovanna

Bring to mind the food that you put on your table today. Whether you had eggs for breakfast, or steamed vegetables for lunch, or even simply an apple to snack on; Do you have any idea where these foods came from? Even if y...read more

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by Madison

Buying local produce eliminates wasteful fuel consumption to transport the produce and also supports the businesses of local farmers. I much prefer to give my cash to a local farmer who toils everyday to build a farm ente...read more

by 'Pomiane'

The Food Miles Conundrum Can anyone tell me where exactly the 'Food Miles' concept originated? Wherever it was, it's been a stunning PR success, if the result when you google 'food miles' is anything to go by - listing ...read more

by Blue State Cowgirl

Buy organic and make an Arab smile! Boy, that sounds like something a Republican would say, and I'm as Left Coast Liberal as you can get. But I'm getting madder and madder at the retailers who are hopping on the organic...read more

by Edward Duffy

Why Buy Local? By Captain Capitalist Campaigns that suggest you should "buy local" or "support independent business owners" may smack of protectionism at first glance. After all, shouldn't a true capitalist f...read more

by Jennifer Kumar

The Carbon Footprint of a Localvore That chair that you bought was made in China. Or was it? Maybe the trees were cut down in U.S., and the logs shipped to China to be chemically processed, turned into boards, and built...read more

by Greg Hardwick

The "Slow Food" movement is also related to eating locally. See there website for further information - http://www.slowfood.com/ Eating organically is often seen as too expensive. So off we walk, down to the local su...read more

by Sue Marchant

Many people are catching on to the benefits of organic food. It's natural, it's been grown without chemical assistance, the land it grew on was not swamped in pesticides. All good and worthy reasons, but aren't we still ...read more