Organic Food Contributing To Global Warming?
You may think that buying organic food is good for the environment but is that always the case? Organic farming is better for the environment because pesticides, herbicides, and other harmful chemicals are not used during production. Crop rotation and companion planting is beneficial to the soil and attracts local wildlife. These are good things but what about the cost of transportation? How much damage is done when your favourite products are flown in from interstate or overseas? How much carbon is released into the atmosphere?
This is why it’s important to buy local produce as often as possible. If you can walk or take public transport to your local market and only buy products which are grown or produced locally then this will help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as help the local economy. It is obviously convenient to drive to your favourite organic supermarket and buy out of season fruit and vegetables but you can’t really say you are helping the environment by doing so? You would probably be better off to buy conventional produce which is grown at local farms.
I’m not saying I buy all my organic products that way. I do buy skin care products and some clothing on the internet. However I buy my fruit and vegetables from local suppliers, well, most of the time, and if I buy something on the internet then I try to buy in bulk rather than buying one item every few weeks.
I think the point is to be aware of what you are buying and what the real cost to the environment is. If I have the choice of something produced locally and something produced overseas then I’ll buy the local product. If we all make this kind of decision at least part of the time then we will be able to reduce the number of greenhouse gases going into the environment and hopefully slow the process of global warming.
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