This article is very relevant to the entire book as it talks about local food “farmer to table” programs, but more specifically it is relevant to chapters 3-5 because it talks about species and different variations of edible plants going extinct. Overall in the story it states that the United States food market is expected to gradually shift to more local food sources over the next decades. This is mainly due to the fact that fuel prices are going to go up making food traveling long distances more expensive. Also in effect is the increase knowledge about fresh fruits and vegetables being healthier for you if you eat them locally and they are never frozen. This move to local markets will cause plant variation to increase because more individual’s farmers will be able to grow different variation and species of plants to sell locally that are not controlled by large food conglomerates. While this is purely an educated guess, if this does occur it will make Americans much healthier, hopefully, and help reduce our carbon footprints.
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