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March 06, 2005
Local food is 'greener'
Environmental thinking is becoming more sophisticated as shown by these BBC and New Scientist reports on a paper in the journal Food Policy (published by Elsevier - not freely available on the net).
This suggests that we should consume local food (produced within 20 kilometres of where we live. Local food is ‘greener’ than organic food that has come from a distance, because of the environmental cost of road transport.
The problem with this is of course that our shops seldom provide information about where exactly in Britain the produce comes from. It certainly would be welcome.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4312591.stm
www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18524895.400
Posted by Simon Holledge at March 6, 2005 11:27 PM
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