Re: Avg. Miles Food Travels
ARZEENA HAMIR (MSA95AH@wye.ac.uk)
Thu, 15 Feb 1996 16:38:33 GMT
>I've often heard it said that food travels 1,300 (or 1,100 or 1,200)
miles,
>on average, from farm to table. Does anyone know a source for this
>statistic?
In the UK, the Independent newspaper published a report (Eat local
and sever the food chains by Joanna Blythman on Oct 23, 1993 p. 35)
stating that food travels an average of 1,100 miles.