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The
result of this sandwich is that food now travels many miles.
You can see all sorts of food vans going backwards and forwards
on motorways.
"Food
miles/kilometres" is a way of measuring the amount your
food travels before it arrives in front of you. We eat only
a little local fresh food.
Instead
we eat processed foods from many miles away. Add up the
food miles in your next meal! You can find water biscuits
in Australia made in Carlisle. Can nobody add flour and
water together in Australia?
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Look
at transport to work out these extra impacts of your organisation.
And don't forget the packaging to wrap all the food travelling
all that way.
The
energy costs of transport add greatly to the energy used in
production particularly making nitrogen fertilsers. UN statistics
show that there has been an eighty fold increase in energy
inputs into agriculture worldwide during the 20th century.
Food
and Energy - another way to count calories.
http://www.foodshed.wisc.edu/
pubsntools/meal1.htm
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