Locavores Research Paper

Locavores What are Locavores? How does their movement affect our society? Well, locavores are people who decide to eat locally grown food, and their movement affects our society by implementing their ideas in our environment and community all for nutrition. Their ideas affect the environment because by implementing local markets, it can have an effect on farmers. This is because, if there is a local market it would affect the big stores like H.E.B., because they won't sell as many vegetables and fruits. So the farmers may have to take them to the local market and sell their crops for less than the stores pay for them. Also a better source of energy is restaurants because, “more energy is consumed per meal in a restaurant.” (Source C) This
is true because restaurants throw away all the leftovers. Also, this idea of a local market could ruin some possible property for a restaurant that could have better food which could mean it has better nutrition. Their ideas also affect the community because there could be part of the community who likes the local markets and all of the locavores ideas. As to where there could be another part where they dislike the ideas and want it to stay like the suburbs and not possibly go back to being rural. “The larger problem is that although decentralized food systems function well in decentralized societies” (Source F) local food markets would not work in the U.S because the U.S is centralized and local food markets were only successful when the U.S used to be decentralized. The reason they think the nutrition is better is because “Locally grown produce is fresher.” (Source A) When really it “doesn’t mean it is necessary to eat locally in order to be healthy.”(Source B) Which is basically meaning that it’s ok to eat store food because the amount of nutrition we got already is fine and we really don't need anymore because the difference isn’t that big between local and store foods. In conclusion their ideas could change the society in a way that could potentially put a break in future innovations. Also general environment such as the community would change for the worse because we get enough nutrition already and we don’t need more from a local fresh food market.