You still got all the nutrients and vitamins from foods that are not local. Plus they still taste good. If our community were to start a locavore movement it would affect everyone because we would have to make more space for crops and farmers. Also farmers from around the world would also have fewer costumers. As Source C shows, it actually takes just as much fuel—and thus, just as much pollution—to ship a small load from a local farm as to ship a large load from a farther location.
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.
• 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
Never have I seen a bag of spinach or a head of broccoli that was advertised as “buy one get one free.” This is due to the fact that if all of a sudden healthy foods were as cheap as unhealthy foods, people would “vote” differently. Farmers would start having to produce more healthy foods, for which they are not subsidized, advertisements for those “fun foods” would need to change to appeal those healthy eaters, and nutritionism would prove that food in its natural form is what is needed to acquire optimal
I think that income has no bearing on a parent’s personal decision for their children’s weight. In many instances obesity in children can be avoided but I believe it has a lot to do with heritage. Some parents are overweight themselves and have bad eating habits and that in fact can be a balance on their children. The government has instilled many programs such as WIC. This program is designed to help women provide a healthy meal for their children, one of the requirements on this program is that the mother can only purchase nutritious items such as low fat milk, a sugar free cereal.
Living continuously and being healthy in the area became more of a hardship around the same time as the sicknesses started increasing. Though normally a sustainable lifestyle in America is very easy because of the many lands suitable for cultivation, the recent events of the colony made it impossible to work the lands. Richard Frethorne describes the food: “A mouthful of bread must serve our men which is pitiful”. A recent scientific
Sandwiches are a better choice because they maintain a lot of carbohydrates. This would fill the children up and keeps their brain functioning. On the food pyramid carbohydrates are at the bottom this is because you need to intake carbohydrates than any other food group. Having a piece of fruit would be good to have as its one of your 5 a day, and they contain the nutrients your body needs. Fruit is good for our bowels and would help the children go to the toilet regularly, this would prevent constipation.
In order to be healthier, we can get rid things like Rockstar, and buy less soda. We can also get rid of some our microwavable foods and junk foods. Even with all the junk food and microwavable foods that we have, our refrigerator is full of vegetables and food that is organic. Since my mom doesn’t work, and my dad does, we don’t really have to worry about not expecting dinner to be ready at night since she’s not really all that busy. We get a hot meal every night that my mom cooks for us, and it’s not just microwave this and that, it’s something that is prepared over the stove.
There are always companies trying to offer a better price to schools constantly and they are giving into these unbeatable prices without even thinking about the consequences (Junk Food). These foods are so cheap because they are manufactured and processed so that the company can produce as much as possible and as cheap as possible. This means that the foods given to the students are not up to its nutritional best and this is the main reason students are eating so poorly. Instead, McHenry County schools can begin to start buying their foods from local farmers and other companies that are local and are more nutritional. Vending machines can also be implemented with other things other than just chips, cookies and other junk foods like that.
All of these new foods now became part of the Western Diet. Nutritionism is the ideology of this Western Diet, the belief that various nutrients and fortification can lend us better, healthier food than we had before (11), and that the key to understanding food is in the nutrient (28). Pollan points out that previously, health science relating to food was relatively nonexistent (19-20), and people ate the food they grew or bought in the store (which was more of a market than a post industrial warehouse full floor to ceiling of every good imaginable.) After chemists started breaking down foods to its individual parts (21), and health science understanding of what our bodies need in order to survive, 3 groups started to emerge: carbohydrates, fats, and protein (20). The stage is now set for Pollan to pick apart Nutritionism, a belief that food is not the sum of its parts, but is viewed as having individual, predominant nutrients