The Actual Cost of Food: Part 2
According to the World Watch Institute, food travels on average of 1,500 to 2,500 miles from its source to our tables. This being the case, there is a direct correlation between rising gas and food prices. When you take into account that our food travels more than we do, we could save an enormous amount of fuel if we all purchased locally grown food. This would lessen our dependence on foreign oil and help keep gas prices down.
“Counting our food miles,” an article on www.naturallifemagazine.com/0708/foodmiles.html, states that even locally grown foods can travel do to off-site packaging. The best way to ensure that your food is truly local is to go to farmers’ markets. Money spent on organic, locally grown food, is money spent on nutritious, freshly harvested and delicious food that you know is safe because you can know the conditions of farm and how it was transported. The alternative is spending money on energy costs that work to lower the overall quality and safety of our food.
Tags: food miles, food prices, locally grown food, organic, World Watch Institute
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