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The local food movement is tied together with some of the most emotional issues of the new century. Although it has some critics, it also has some dedicated and ardent supporters.
The idea behind Local Food is rather complicated although it might appear simple at first. It says that food produced in a local area is better for consumption by local residents for a variety of reasons. These reasons range from economic to environmental to political. The movement has grown from rather modest beginnings to become a highly controversial alternative to an increasingly global economy.
Local Food has sometimes been called food patriotism because of the belief that the purchase and consumption of food that is produced in a particular region has economic and cultural benefits to the inhabitants of that region. It is thought that there are even nutritional benefits that can be gained by consumption of local foods. The idea is that the soil and climate of the local region would be capable of producing foods that are more beneficial to people that have been raised on that soil and in that climate.
Some critics of Local Food argue that, in most cases, it is more expensive than the processed foods available via massive national and even international distribution systems. Local food advocates counter that this view is very narrow and does not take into consideration the total costs associated with the production and distribution of food. These additional costs include environmental costs of the fossil fuels burned to transport the prepared foods over the thousands of miles of the distribution network. Local food supporters claim that judging cost by merely looking at the price tag at the point of sale is totally missing the big picture.
Local Food also benefits the local economy. It provides income and jobs for people in the local region and this translates into benefits that go beyond the[1] [2] 下一页 更多英语知识学习请访问:英语学习
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