Date published: 2005/03/03
The BBC says:
Local food is usually more "green" than organic food, according to a report published in the journal Food Policy. The authors say organic farming is also valuable, but people can help the environment even more by buying food from within a 20km (12-mile) radius. They calculate that moving food long distances can cause more harm than non-organic farming methods. Furthermore, "road miles" account for proportionately more environmental damage than "air miles", they claim.
Typical thoughts from the chattering classes who run the UK, and all part of the campaign to demonise cheap food. (Cheap food is ever so lower class. The peasants should eat what the chattering classes tell them to eat.) Unfortunately for the authors of the report, road transport is the only economic activity in the UK which pays for its environmental damage, so if consumers want to buy food which has come by road transport, they should be able to.
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