• Preparedness for National Disaster/Fuel Crisis • Local produce taste better • Local produce is better for you • Promotes produce diversity • Is GMO free • Helps to build community • Good for local economy/supports local farmers • Beneficial for the environment 11 What are the challenges to local food in Vermont? • Diet adjustments would be needed • Production diversity is lacking • Lack of processing and storage facilities • Cheaper to import foods from agribusiness farms 16 What is currently being done to
Today, our food and agriculture system is not sustainable, and can be greatly improved with the help of the whole community. However, some may think that sustainability is too expensive and time consuming and is not enough to help to our local health and economy. Some may choose to neglect local farms to save money, time and energy. Some people value using our land and resources for commercial use, tourism and urbanization instead of sustainable agriculture. Some believe the scarce and declining amount of farming land and natural resources is
Industrial hemp provides thousands and thousands of uses and hemp products usually are cheaper and last longer…something college students can appreciate! Also, many students are uninformed about the differences between marijuana and hemp. c. Thesis Statement : With hemp having an estimated 50,000 uses, the ability to hinder deforestation/help the environment, and being the number one textile for thousands of years, hemp farming needs to be legalized in the United States. d. Preview of Main Points: * What is hemp and industrial hemp * Why is it illegal to grow * Where else is it grown? * Reasons why it should be legal to grow in the US.
Small farmers benefit from consumers who choose them over Stop & Shop’s aisles of imports, and these small farmers are getting help from the government. When you buy local more money stays in the community. This would not be the case however if you bought from a big food chain which sends the money out all over the place. For local business owners, the money that is spent locally will eventually find its way back to them which in return helps strengthen the local economy and helps local businesses thrive and grow. While some argue that buying local threatens small farmers elsewhere in the world, they ignore that if everyone bought local food, everyone’s local economies would improve.
we used more whole wheat pasta instead of bananas and other fresh fruits). Lastly, we fall into the category of a typical consumer because we, along with many Americans, do not recycle, and as stated before 74.69% of our trash could have been recycled meaning that only 25.31% of our trash was actual garbage. These statistics are shocking because it shows as a household that we are falling into the typical parameters of a "lazy" consumer, we are buying the cheapest, fasted made packaged food without giving a second thought about the consequences it will have on the environment or on
Production will increase significantly as well and create growth in the new world. I would make renewable resources as the only resource keep recycling and clean and keep earth eco friendly as much as
The article “Hemp-could save America” (2011) states that some of hemp’s agricultural benefits especially for American farmers are that hemp can be grown without any herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides. Hemp is weed and pest resistant and also improves the soil in crop rotation. This makes hemp more cost efficient and safer to cultivate. According to the article “Hemp-could save America” (2011) the hemp fiber can be used to make almost all the paper products used in the US. Hemp paper does not yellow
Wind turbines are clean, effective and nonpolluting; however, one cannot predict the speed or direction exactly. The heavier populated areas require more energy. Not enough wind and the turbine will not turn. Wind turbines are noisy, threatens wild life, and is an eye sore along with costly for the initial funding. Solar energy is a non-pollutant, cost effective, maintenance free, life span of up to 40 years; however the upfront cost is enormous, and not everyone can afford the cost to put the stylish panels on their roof tops.
It's not what our parents taught us, or what we teach our children. It's not who we are as Americans. Just as having a farm system that is so enormously destructive to the environment is un-American. Cage-free and free-range eggs are the fastest growing sector of the food industry right now -- not just in San Francisco or NYC, but in all of America -- and that says something powerful about who we are. It says that we are willing to spend more money for food that causes less suffering.
Zane Laufenberg Moriann Barker ANTHR 101 7 October 2013 Farming is Beneficial There are arguments like in the article The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race by Jared Diamond that say it was a huge mistake when the human race went from hunting and gathering to agriculture. I strongly disagree and believe that by becoming a farming race humans have been able to advance in technology quicker and now a large population of people can live stationary in a small area. Diamond makes the point that the bushmen of the Kalahari can easily live off the land and have a good amount of leisure time. This may be true but they also have not advanced a great deal in technology either. People in farming civilizations may work many more hours a day but they also enjoy the perks of technology.