The average item of food travels 1,500 miles to your plate

How can your average item of food travel 1,500 miles to your plate?  Cheap oil, that’s how.  But be careful how you count the carbon generated by the delivery of your food.

The amount of “oil in our food” suggests that we will be eating a lot more local food, rather sooner than later.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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