Essay On Becoming A Locavore Community

Food is a crucial part of every living things life. As the old saying goes, “You are what you eat.” In order for a person to live a long and healthy life, certain safety precautions must be taken with their food (Smith). If food is put in the wrong place at the wrong time it can become extremely harmful to a person (Smith). Communities should strive towards a locavore movement because it is good for the economy and is a safer and healthier way of providing places with food. If communities don’t move towards a locavore way of life, more people will die and towns will fail. When a community is debating whether or not to move towards locavorism, they should most definitely do it because it would improve their economy tremendously (Maiser). Across America, small communities are failing because they do not know effective ways to …show more content…
Not only does it create income for the community, but it creates jobs in a world where it’s hard to find work (McWilliams). The long distance haul of food causes jobs to be given to cheap laborers, taking away from job opportunities here at home (Roberts). If a town went to a locavore way of life, these jobs wouldn’t be needed, but ones close to home would, giving townspeople more job opportunities and all in all helping the community economy. In addition to a better economy, locavorism also brings healthier and safer food to towns. The nutrition of a town’s food supply is important for the success of it. If the fruits and vegetables they are eating aren’t at maximum nutrition, problems are sure to occur. Luckily with the locavore way of life, it has been proven that the less food has to travel, the healthier it is (Smith). Also, the shorter food has to travel, the closer it is to maximum nutrition (Smith). Townspeople’s food items they consume would be extremely more healthy if they switched to a locavore