Why Eat Local
Your favorite foods might not need to travel across the country before winding up on your plate. Head to your co-op or neighborhood market to find locally grown fall ingredients.
Why is local important? Eating local foods represents sustainable agriculture, where food is grown for the local community. The problem is that less and less communities are able to feed themselves.
We’ve become a society where a community may grow lots of food in, say, Iowa, but it’s all corn or soybeans, and it’s all shipped somewhere else; and tomatoes and other things are shipped in. With oil pricing getting higher, this may be unsustainable long-term.
So what does that mean for the person shopping for dinner? It means that you always stay local – wherever you go or move you have to determine what local means for you.
In New Jersey, 50 miles or 20 miles is a lot different than in Kansas, where 100 miles is not that close. It is a good idea to talk to the seller about what local means – in terms of where and how it was grown, and the health and safety of the food. [source: Delicious Living]
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