It doesn’t really make sense to eat foods that have to shipped around the world when so much of what we need is already grown or processed by our neighbours. From the David Suzuki Foundation:
“Food miles refers to the distance your food travelled to make it to your dinner table. It is estimated that the elements of a basic North American meal travel 2,400 km (1,500 miles).We started this effort by throwing a local food/beverage birthday party for my wife.Consider the distance your food has traveled the next time you’re in the grocery store. Long distance transport increases the emissions of the heat-trapping gases which cause global warming.”
