🛣️Food Miles

It is often argued that, to reduce environmental damage, we ought to purchase foods produced locally. This turns out to simply be a trend and not backed by data. Transportation has a typically negligible impact on the environment compared to actual production. "the trendy practice of 'eating local' has very little impact. One study found that, in the US, the proportion of a food's emissions linked to transport works out at just 11%. In comparison to the carbon required to make it, even travelling long distances – the average product has covered 6,760km (4200 miles) by the end of its life – makes a relatively small contribution." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220429-the-climate-benefits-of-veganism-and-vegetarianism https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es702969f