why does buying food that is grown in your local area help prevent loss of biodiversity?
When you grow lettuce on a gigantic farm to ship all over the country, you grow one kind that is chosen to last a long time in the ice box and ship well. It is all the same everywhere.
When a few small farmers grow lots of different kinds of lettuce that their different local customers like for different reasons, you have lots of different kinds of lettuce.
Which one? Help!
local plants and animals are less apt to be endangered
local species require less energy to grow
reducing the purchase of distant species means they are saved from being used for food
reducing drilling for oil to supply transport fuel reduces the impact on many species
reducing drilling for oil to supply transport fuel reduces the impact on many species
Well - that is true