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

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It is true that
people
 rely on more and more imported
food
 products, and I completely agree that eating
food
 produced by local farms is much better than consuming those from far away. There are a variety of reasons for
this
, and I will discuss both advantages and disadvantages in
this
 essay. There are some disadvantages if
people
 must eating eat only local
food
.
Firstly
, if
people
 are living in a small area which has almost no farming land, the citizens there might have no other choice than
eating
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food
 from other places.
For example
, Japan which owns a small land but
a
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large population is greatly dependent on importing
food
 from other countries in order to satisfy the market's needs. In another case, if
people
 are limited to
buy
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 only
food
 from the local and the local agriculture industry cannot produce every kind of
food
 to fulfil the balanced nutrition requirement for health, it will impact the development of
people
's growth
especially
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 children's.
On the other hand
, there are more advantages if
people
 buy more local
food
.
Firstly
, it could reduce the transportation of imported
food
 which reduces the impacts
on
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 climate
changes
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 on the Earth and in the meantime
which
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it
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 reduces the cost of transportation so
people
 can save their cost of living by buying cheaper
food
.
Secondly
, since
local
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food
 is faster to be delivered to the market, it is generally fresher than
food
 with long-term transportation.
Finally
, the local
food
 can be better regulated by the local law which means the quality of the local
food
 could be higher than the imported
one
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ones
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. In conclusion, I believe that the advantages of eating local
food
 products outweigh its disadvantages because of reasons from both environmental wise and economic wise.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • carbon emissions
  • transportation
  • environmentally friendly
  • economically beneficial
  • local farmers
  • local economy
  • fresher
  • nutritious
  • food security
  • imports
  • preserving
  • traditional farming practices
  • biodiversity
  • limited variety
  • availability
  • cost
  • contributor
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