Milan Johnson

Ms. Crandall

AP Language, 2pd.

17 December 2019

Synthesis- Locavores

Those who are interested in an efficient, healthier, and easier way to obtain the food you

eat may want to become a locavore. A locavore is a person who desires to eat locally grown or

produced products as frequently as possible. The quality of the produce put into the human body

has a wide range of positive and negative effects. Although some may oppose that this

movement overlooks “other energy-hogging factors in food production”, the benefits of this

movement are effective on not only the individual, but the environment itself (Source C).

Classifying as a locavore is beneficial for the economy, contains greater freshness and ripeness,

and carries more nutrients.

In economic terms, this lifestyle can successfully improve the economy as a whole. As

mass production gas become more prevalent in recent times, factories have been putting small

farms out of business. In order to aid this increasing problem, locavores are known to “give those

with local open space” an “economic reason to stay open and undeveloped” (Source A).

Statistics have prevailed this beneficial growth as “small farms have increased 10% in the past

six years” (Source E). Along with increasing the productivity and prolonging the lifespan of

local farms, the locavore movement also “protects us from bio terrorism” (Source A). The

smaller distance the food on our plate has to travel, “the less susceptibility to harmful
contamination” (Source A). As a result, economic factors flourish as our food has a smaller risk

of adulteration, overall, being safer.

Accompanying economic improvement, locavores have quality nutrition. As previously

mentioned, since the food travels a shorter distance it is more “likely to be closer to a maximum

nutrition” (Source B). When striving to benefit eating habits and general health, it is important to

check the quality of the food and make sure it is efficient. Along with nutrition, the taste is

equally as important. It is said that “local food just plain tastes better” (Source A). The relatively

close distance lastly provides the “most abundant” and “least expensive” way of obtaining our

food (Source A).

In closing, it is concluded that locavores promote general health as they outweigh

alternative eating habits. This lifestyle generates positive economic effects as well as it carries a

great amount of nutrients. Why not choose riper and healthier food, help the environment, and

become a locavore?