FST 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Local Food, Sustainable Gardening, Slow Food
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Locavore (local eating) was intended to encourage local, sustainable food production and consumption. The plan incorporates the farm-to-table, local food preference, and slow food concepts, but also appears to have an underlying goal to reestablish traditional, local farming and even the playing field with industrialized food manufacturers. The diet seems simple only eat food grown within a 100-mile radius. However, the point is to buy food directly from farmers" markets (cutting out the middleman), or grow a sustainable garden on one"s own property. To determine whether the diet is necessary for food justice, we must look at it from inside and outside the box. Providing fresh, nutritious, unadulterated food to the community, which can increase mental alertness, physical activity, and overall good health, while reducing diet-related illnesses, girth growth, and obesity; Cutting food transportation mileage, reducing vehicular injuries and deaths, natural resource depletion (fuel, oil, rubber tires), and environmental damage (air pollution, atmospheric gases/global warming), thus creating a smaller footprint;
