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January 12, 2012
It is fashionable these days to decry "food miles."
Two economists recently concluded, after studying the issue,that the entire concept of food miles is a "profoundly flawed sustainability indicator." Getting food from the farmer to the shop causes just 4% of all its lifetime emissions…A New Zealand lamb, shipped to England, requires one-quarter as much carbon to get on to a London plate as a Welsh lamb; a Dutch rose, grown in a heated greenhouse and sold in London, has six times the carbon footprint of a Kenyan rose grown under the sun using water recycled through a fish farm, using geothermal electricity and providing employment to Kenyan women. -- Eat Global, Not Local | Ben Casnocha
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 12, 2012 1:51 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.