In the past, people ate local, in-season food, but now, people tend to consume out- of-season food from different parts of the world. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

Our ancestors had to try hard to become able to provide
food
for every meal. They had no option of picking up a
take-away
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but they would mostly collect
food
from their own gardens and farms. Nowadays processes
such
as globalization and
industralization
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industrialization
industrialisation
enabled us to freely come to the supermarket and buy all kinds of
food
, no matter the season or its origin. Is
this
comfort a
privilage
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privilege
or
a
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harm to
todays’
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today’s
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generations?
To begin
with, one who was picking up
seosanal
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seasonal
food
from one’s own garden, was secure of the
food
source.
In other words
,
people
knew how the
food
was treated,
with
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what kind of chemicals.
Food
was collected in season meaning that it grew naturally and that it was mostly eaten right
awa
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away
Consequently
, even the
food
choice was narrowed,
people
had no chance of consuming
low quality
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, industrially made
food
,
such
as fast
food
.
On the other hand
, it
seams
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to me that
people
would de facto work as farmers and gardeners just to provide
food
for themselves which demanded a great amount of time and energy.
Therefore
, supermarkets are expeditiously saving us time. Not only that but
also
we can easily try new
food
. For
this
reason
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we can explore new tastes and
also
make our meal plan more diverse. In conclusion,
people
in the past ate local, not chemically treated
food
but they had to work hard in order to provide it.
Nowdays
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,
people
should try to buy local, keeping an eye on
food
origin but
also
its variety.
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