When walking through a grocery store, you can easily forget that all the food in the store was once local. Once upon a time, people baked bread, churned butter, and butchered chicken; if they didn't do it themselves, they purchased major food products from local small business suppliers. However, grocery stores are now stocked with pre-sliced ​​bread, packaged butter and portioned chicken. It can also be seen that American supermarkets have no seasons. “Now there are tomatoes all year round, grown on the other side of the world, harvested when green and ripened with ethylene gas. Although it looks like a tomato, it is a kind of fictitious tomato. I mean, it's the idea of ​​a tomato” (Polland, Michael). Tomatoes, as well as other foods, have come a long way: from home grown to industrially grown. Although food production has evolved considerably over time, this dramatic change is believed to have led to governments subsidizing farms, a rapid development of biotechnology leading to an advance in genetic manipulation, and a change in food making Unsure what is better, local or organic? Thousands of years ago, people gathered and gathered food from the wild or hunted animals large and small. The hunting and gathering process was sufficient for smaller groups of people in a suitable environment, but as the population began to grow, people were pushed into areas where it was difficult to obtain food, so they looked for nutritional sources that could depend on. The practice of agriculture is believed to have first arisen in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East around ten or eleven thousand years BC. The area hosted a lot of consumption...... half of the paper...... could ask Whole Foods CEO John Mackey to help answer your question. According to Cloud, “He told me that when he can't get locally grown organic produce – and he can't get it reliably either – he decides based on taste. “I would probably buy a local non-organic tomato before buying an organic one shipped from California,” he said. He called the two tomatoes "an environmental wash," as the California one contained miles of oil while the non-organic one had been grown with pesticides. “But the local tomato from outside Austin will be fresher, it will just taste better,” he said” (Cloud, John). When you walk through that grocery store, don't forget that that food was once local. If we can choose the right food, even if it means looking for healthier, fresher and local food, we can make a difference in today's food issues.