http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/global-warming-environment/global-warming-101.html
Benefits of eating local produce
"Locally sourced food helps the environment in many ways. Most supermarket food will travel hundreds of miles to get to your shopping basket. The obvious impact of this on the environment is the amount of fuel used. Produce straight from the field, orchard or sea dramatically reduces not only fuel pollution but all the other harmful chemicals used in the storage and transportation process. Packaging is an area many people have issue with. Supermarket food packaging burdens the environment from manufacturing which uses precious energy and damaging chemicals to the vast amount of waste that ends up in landfills. Fresh, local produce on the other hand has minimal, less flashy packaging. Often, all it is is a plain paper bag. This not only has less impact on the flavour of the food, it reduces the use of natural resources."
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Benefits-of-Using-Fresh,-Local-Produce&id=2066588
"Local food is fresher and tastes better than food that been trucked or flown in from thousands of miles away. Think you can't taste the difference between lettuce picked yesterday and lettuce picked last week, factory-washed, and sealed in plastic? You can.
And fresh food? It lasts longer too."
http://localfoods.about.com/od/finduselocalfoods/tp/5-Reasons-to-Eat-Local-Foods.htm
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