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Created: Jan 11, 2008
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Topic: Do food miles matter?
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Here's a new study that argues that local food may not be the most sustainable:
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2008/apr/science/ee_foodmiles.html
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Interesting article, I read another one about the same study. You can see the abstract here:
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/esthag/2008/42/i10/abs/es702969f.html
What I got out of it is that food miles are not as relevant as food choices when it comes to eating meat & dairy foods. You can make far greater reductions in carbon emissions by eating lower on the food chain than by eating local. However, for folks that already have vegan or vegetarian diets, then food miles do matter and eating local strawberries has less impact than those watermellons from Mexico.
If you want to know the equivalent carbon dioxide emissions for your food try this food carbon calculator from Bon Appitit:
http://www.eatlowcarbon.org/