Food travels thousands of miles from producers to customers. Some people think that it would be better for the environment and economy if people only ate the local food produced by farmers. Advantages and disadvantages.

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the remarkable development of transportation has created a golden chance for

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to be imported from every corner of the world to consumers, it is at times considered that locally produced

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is more beneficial in terms of environmental friendliness and

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. In

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essay, I am about to discuss both benefits and drawbacks of consuming local

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. On the one hand, it is undeniable that the more local

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is used, the better the environment and

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. First of all, when local

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becomes buyers' preference, farmers obtain more opportunities to market and sell their products. Within a community, the consumption of

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produced by its inhabitants can encourage more production to meet the locals' demands.

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, if the dwellers solely purchased what was produced in their area,

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would not have to be delivered a distance to reach its customers, which means less and less transport would be required.

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, a significant loss of fumes and smokes from vehicles could be expected.

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, the consumption of local

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only could prevent the

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from striking on a national scale. In fact, when

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import is one of the major fields of many countries to earn a huge amount of money yearly. Not only the countries themselves but their companies and factories

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make a big profit from the export of their products. If those nations stop their export of

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, it will bring disastrous effects of the domestic recession.

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, Vietnam is well-known for its high-quality

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beans which have been imported by many other countries around the world, namely the USA, China and France. If one day, Vietnam's

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was consumed by Vietnamese people only,

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could have disastrous effects on Vietnamese farmers. Of the limitation of the population, the amount of

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drunk by Vietnamese dwellers only was

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limited, which means the farmers were not able to sell as much

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as they do now when they are exporting their work to many parts of the world.

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, they would earn less profit and probably, some plantations had to axe their employees for the shortage of income. In conclusion, it is environmentally and economically good to consume local

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.

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,

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a trend can negatively affect the

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as well.