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Counting only "food miles" may lead you wrong
Submitted by Hans Nilsson on Thu, 2007-04-12 07:00.
Don't we all look more closely to the statement about origin of goods, especially food, in our shops nowadays and think about global warming? This healthy reaction may however not be enough to make the right decisions. One stunning example is that flowers grown in Africa and transported by air to our shops may have a smaller carbon footprint than those grown around the corner in heated greenhouses!
Food miles is a concept that takes the bigger perspective but still comes short since there are more ecological factors than energy only. It is certainly not easy to exercise the power we have as customers. One solution to this may be labelling with fair trade or fair planet that takes the bigger perspective into account with more aspects to the issues.
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