Food miles

Bob Morris, on Mar 23, 2008, 8:30 pm

Hmm, maybe flying strawberries from New Zealand to New England in January isn’t the best of all possible use of resources.

2 comments to Food miles

Ten Bears
March 23, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Lettuce from Mexico, bottled water from Figi.
DJ
March 24, 2008 at 10:01 am
I did the math: flying 1 pound of peaches from Chili to the U.S. emits 3.5 pounds of CO2. It’s pretty bad when the CO2 emitted by transportation exceeds the weight of the food.