The Locavore Movement The age of just carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores has come to an end. In recent years, health and economy wary citizens have started a locavore movement, where they only buy and consume foods grown or produced locally. The key benefits of this locavore movement include higher levels of nutrition in the food and improvement of the local economy, which promotes increased health and an overall strengthening of the community. One main benefit of the locavore movement is that foods grown locally have higher levels of nutrition. The first reason for this is the lesser gap between when the produce is picked and when it is consumed. According to Source A, this decreased gap “not only affects the taste of your food, but
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The primary way buying only locally grown foods helps the economy is that it promotes the growth of small farms. The amount of these small farms “has increased 20% in the past six years, to 1.2 million, according to the agriculture department” (Source E). The increased amount of small, local farms means convenient for locavores, but that the success of the farms depends on them. A rise of the locavore movement in a community means they will stop buying produce grown elsewhere and will turn to these local farms looking for business. The business the farms will receive will sustain the farms and their owners. By supporting local farms, a community able to keep more of its money within its own community. Source A explains that “a dollar spent locally generates twice as much income for the local economy” than a dollar spent outside the community does. Since locavores only buy produce from places near to them, the money stays local instead of being paid to faraway suppliers. The doubling of the income made from produce for the economy will help sustain and strengthen the economy greatly. The implication of sustainment local farms and an improved local economy is the strengthening of the community as a whole. With increased business to local farms, more money stays local. With more money staying local, more can be spent of projects and reforms for the betterment of the community. A healthy economy stimulated by the locavore movement improves business, job opportunities and the standard of living for its
The primary way buying only locally grown foods helps the economy is that it promotes the growth of small farms. The amount of these small farms “has increased 20% in the past six years, to 1.2 million, according to the agriculture department” (Source E). The increased amount of small, local farms means convenient for locavores, but that the success of the farms depends on them. A rise of the locavore movement in a community means they will stop buying produce grown elsewhere and will turn to these local farms looking for business. The business the farms will receive will sustain the farms and their owners. By supporting local farms, a community able to keep more of its money within its own community. Source A explains that “a dollar spent locally generates twice as much income for the local economy” than a dollar spent outside the community does. Since locavores only buy produce from places near to them, the money stays local instead of being paid to faraway suppliers. The doubling of the income made from produce for the economy will help sustain and strengthen the economy greatly. The implication of sustainment local farms and an improved local economy is the strengthening of the community as a whole. With increased business to local farms, more money stays local. With more money staying local, more can be spent of projects and reforms for the betterment of the community. A healthy economy stimulated by the locavore movement improves business, job opportunities and the standard of living for its