food travels from farm to table. For those who are interested, the answer
is below, courtesy of Dave French. (Actually, several of you cited this
source). Does anyone have a copy of the article that we can circulate? If
not, I'll try to track one down.
- Sarah
I asked:
>>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?
>
Dave responded:
>The reference that I have for this is: The Packer (1992) "From Grower to
>Consumer: An Elaborate Odyssey," 13 June 1992. Unfortunately, this
>information is second hand. I don't have a copy of the original article.
>There are several publications named The Packer. I believe that the one
>we're looking for is this one:
>
>TITLE The packer. Kansas City, Mo.: Packer Pub. Co., 1968-
>Vol. 75, no. 6 (Mar. 2, 1968) -
>FORMAT v. : ill. ; 57 cm.
>NOTES KEY TITLE: Packer (1968)
>Weekly
>The national weekly business newspaper of growers, shippers,
>receivers, distributors and retailers of fruits and vegetables;
>subtitle varies.
>Published: Kansas City, Kan., <1977->; Shawnee, Mission, Kan.:
>Vance Publishing Corp., <1980->
>
>and the volume we're looking for is v. 99. If you actually find a copy of
>the article, I'd love to get one also.
>
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>Dave French dfrench@doit.wisc.edu
>Food Science Department University of Wisconsin-Madison
>1605 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1565 608-262-4613
>813 Maple Terrace, Madison, WI 53705-2112 608-233-5238
>
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