Many foods are shipped from far away. Some people think that eating local food is better environmentally and economically. Do you think the advantages outweigh its disadvantages

The shipping of a wide range of foods from other cities or countries may have an adverse impact on locally produced

food

in

this

modern world of aggressive competition.

However

, the latter, in my own eyes,

obviously offers

Accept comma addition

obviously, offers

more merits than demerits. On the face of it, the consumption of local

food

might be said to have certain drawbacks. One of them is the lack of diversity or exotic taste. Without access to strange

food

from far away, people in Vietnam today,

for instance

, would feel fed up with a limited number of

food

choices or would never have a chance to try, and probably enjoy, the taste of a similar type of

food

which is actually imported from other countries,

such

as Kobe beef from Japan.

However

, compared with

food

transported from other regions, eating

food

produced locally is significantly more beneficial in economic, environmental, and educational terms. From an economic point of view, local

food

does not involve excessive transportation leading to higher and higher costs, especially with increasing fuel prices taken into account.

This

is

also

associated with less damaging effects on the environment related to the shipping of

food

products by plane from abroad. In terms of education, consuming local

food

helps nurture patriotism among young generations, orienting them towards preserving and developing the sense of using indigenous products. In today's world of globalization, the effort to consume local

food

is

thus

playing an indispensable role in maintaining the identity of each and every local culture. In a word, the downside of eating locally produced

food

is outweighed by its upside.

This

is, in actual fact, true from economic, environmental, and educational viewpoints.