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Have you heard of “food miles”? That’s the distance it takes for your food to travel from where it’s grown to a grocery store near you. Food miles are also a measure of how much gas, oil and other factors go into transporting food.
Thirty-seven percent of the energy used in our food system goes towards the production of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The 14 percent of the energy used to transport food from farm to store is equal to two-thirds of the total energy used to produce food. In all, 80 percent of the energy our food system uses goes to processing, packaging, transporting, storing and preparing food — and we’re paying for those costs, rather than for the necessary nutrition.
On average, fruits and vegetables travel 1,300–2,000 miles to get from farms to us. Chilean grapes travel 5,900 miles, and the cargo ships and refrigerated trucks used to ferry them emit 7,000 tons of pollution every year. A typical carrot travels 1,838 miles to get to your salad!
Why does this matter? The nutrient density of these fruits and vegetables begins to decline the instant that they are harvested.
Learn more about how eating seasonally is better for your health (and for the planet): http://bit.ly/2Z7jLsv
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