The most important thing you can do for the world is eat locally and seasonally – and if you can afford to do so choose organically grown foods.
If your fruits and veggies were flown to your country from some far away destination, covered in pesticides and picked out of season.. no good …. think of the fuel use alone. eeek!
Use common sense when shopping; go to the farmers market, choose local items, buy fruits and veggies that are grown locally or are in season, shop discount stores, dumpster dive, buy bulk dry goods, volunteer at local food banks or with local Gleaners (both will reward you with free food for your time).
Just like a standard diet, a vegetarian diet is as expensive or as cheap as you make it.
– it’s not about buying all the fancy fake meats and faux cheese – as a matter of fact you should avoid processed, packaged, well traveled foods like this.
– it is about eating healthy, simple food that’s good for you and for this struggling planet. I do not believe factory farms should exist, at all. I do however believe you can have land and raise happy, healthy animals that will someday be food.
– Will i raise animals for food, nope. I will raise chickens for eggs and grow mushrooms for protein though.
(what happens when the chickens stop laying, you ask? well then they just hang out being chickens because chickens are great, seriously.)
Do you have to be vegan? No.
Do you need to think about where your food comes from? Yes.
Should you try to eat more local veggies – yes
How about eating less meat/dairy overall – Yes.
Should you try to eat locally and seasonally, Hell yes!
No, you shouldn’t eat locally grown or organic if you care about the enviornment.
http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/05/28/the-fallacy-of-locally-grown-produce/
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 