Locavores Research Paper

Locavores or Locovores? Imagine if you will a bustling food market, full of ripe vegetables, fruit, and most of all people. You can smell the bell peppers, hold the “golden delicious” apples, and grab your own tomatoes straight from the vine. You think to yourself “this is how food is meant to be sold.”
...But is it? While the idea of Locavorism is good out of context, I mean who wouldn't want to buy food they knew were raised with love and care, it is proving hard to actually perform in practice. For instance, what if you live in the middle of a city thousands of miles away from any land to grow your crops? Then you might ask yourself, “is a Locavore diet even better than the one I had before?” The answer might surprise you. While the Locavore diet is meant to provide you with more nutrients than you might get from a store bought diet, the amount of nutrients it gives you compared to a more manageable and easily accessible diet is close to microscopic. Not only is the difference negligible, it's unnecessary to even consider. People not on the Locavore diet are not nutrient deprived, in fact we can get all we need …show more content…
While the Locavore diet may seem good for the upper-class, it seemingly leaves the urban middle-class, and lower-class behind. While farmers markets have been trying to infiltrate the bigger cities there are still problems with access, convenience, and most of all price. It leaves the people who want to switch to the so called healthier lifestyle scratching their heads on how they are going to find a local market in the first place. The majority of our population here in the United States live in “Large, densely populated, urban areas”(Roberts) and so it is so much more convenient for us to go to a grocery store then to find a place that delivers food from hundreds of miles