What consumers forget about when choosing to buy locally, is that they might not have all the consumables they want or need without this global food foundation. ... Most animal feed is not produced locally. ... The world is very critical of a producer's carbon footprint and consumers are buying more "green" these days. While buying locally will cut down on what has been dubbed "food miles", the amount of miles food travels from the source of production to its destination, food miles are not even close to the largest health factor for the environment (Hill, 1). ... Peop...

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The world currently spends $550 billion a year producing, buying, and selling military weapons. ... I find this very disrespectful to the people who are really starving, they shouldn't be shown like animals on a tv screen, they should be given dignity. ...

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It will soon feel how it is to be treated lower than animals. ... Being treated worse, than animals doesn't help the situation. ... Every time someone is low paid they are not able to buy necessities and that when the economy starts to improve. ...

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Just to get payed a low wage people have to clean houses on their knees and crawl like animals to make a living. ... In order to survive the people living in one household have to work in multiple jobs just to pay rent and buy food.The fact is that the money is not wasted wrongly its that the poor do not make enough money. ...

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People can attempt to produce food by planting and caring for their land and animals, but Mother Nature has the ultimate say and humans are unable to predict what she will do next. ... "Adequate nourishment for a family depends upon its ability either to produce enough food for its own needs or to earn enough money to buy the food-or some combination of the two. ...

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