Food travels thousands of miles from producers to consumers. Some people think that it would be better for the environment and economy if people only ate the local food produced by farmers. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Nowadays it is absolutely normal for

food

to be one of the biggest components

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global

trade

.

This

hasn't always been the case, and today some members of the public call for significantly reducing the volume of transferred

food

, or even eliminating the

food

trade

completely, due to both environmental and economic concerns. While it is true that in some cases it is better for everyone to shorten the logistic chains, I disagree with the end objective of cancelling the global provision market.

First

, there is totally no doubt that it only helps the economic development if the range of goods that consumers can buy stays as wide as possible. At the same time, any attempts to impose restrictions or limits on what can be imported never lead to anything but market disbalance and lower satisfaction of the buyers, which

consequently

hurts both small and big businesses. As an example, in Russia importing

food

from the European Union was forbidden in 2014, which became one of the main reasons

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slowdown that followed.

Second

,

although

the environmental aspect at least deserves a discussion, it is

also

not a good reason to stop buying and selling

food

globally. Unlike a few decades ago, today there is a big variety of sustainable approaches to transport cargo. If the regulations are properly followed by all parties that participate in

trade

processes, the resulting total impact on the environment could be even lower than in the case of short logistic chains with inefficient local producers,

such

as farmers. Especially that,

for instance

, small producers often don't have access to modern vehicles that reduce carbon emissions. In conclusion, claims that it would be better for everyone to return to only consuming locally produced

food

, are rather baseless. The negative consequences of the potential cancellation of the global

food

trade

would outweigh the positive ones. And most importantly, there are ways to keep the provision logistic chains both efficient and sustainable.