Essay On Locavore Movement

A Locavore Movement is when people “have decided to eat locally grown or produced products as much as possible” (Prompt). Most people have never heard of a locavore, so they would never see the benefits the movement can have on a community. Locavore Movements are greatly appreciated due to all of the benefits it comes with; it allows farmers to bring in more of an income for their families, encourages healthier eating for less than someone would find in a Walmart or Winn Dixie, and is also reduces the need of commercial vehicles to bring imported food to a community store.

For smaller farmers, keeping the money flowing can be hard especially when it has not been the best year, so being able to just head to the local market and …show more content…
Today in America, most people work for a living and they have to rely on fast food and heat-to-eat types food to keep up with their fast pace life. A locavore tends to eat healthier due to the fact they only try to eat local grown products straight from the farm. “The freshness not only affects the taste of your food, but the nutritional value” (Maiser), basically saying that fresher food hold more nutrition than foods that have been sitting on a store shelf for a few days. “It’s not just vitamins and minerals, but all these phytochemicals and really powerful disease-fighting substances, and we do know that when a food never really reaches its peak ripeness, the levels of these substances never get as high.” (Smith). When food has to travel farther to reach a person's plate, they is a higher risk of some sort of contamination, “Food with less distance to travel from farm to plate has less susceptibility to harmful contamination” (Maiser). The freshness, lesser risk of contamination, and the higher nutritional value allows for the food to be healthier for the eater, leading to a better