Is the 100 Mile Diet a Bad Thing?
Is the 100 Mile Diet a Bad Thing?
Is the 100 Mile Diet a good thing?
Food has to travel to get from the farm to your plate. The farther it travels, the more transportation emissions it causes. Therefore, buy food that’s produced locally (100 miles) and reduce the carbon footprint of the food you consume – low “food miles”.
The simple idea of “food miles” can lead you in the wrong direction. You must consider the entire emissions a foodstuff has created. For example, growing tomatoes in a local greenhouse, with all the heating and lighting it takes, can cause more emissions than raising the tomatoes in a sunny climate and shipping them to your door.
As a good rule of thumb, if it’s in season and grown locally, it’s likely lower in emissions. If it’s out of season locally, you need to dig much deeper.
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