{"id":855,"date":"2005-03-05T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/03\/05\/the-food-less-travelled\/"},"modified":"2005-03-05T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-05T15:25:00","slug":"the-food-less-travelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/the-food-less-travelled\/","title":{"rendered":"The Food Less Travelled"},"content":{"rendered":"
Been meaning to get this post on organic and locally-grown food<\/a> from Cascadia Scorecard Weblog up for several days (WorldChanging beat me to it<\/a>). It links to a BBC report that notes <\/p>\n Local food is usually more “green” than organic food, according to a report published in the journal Food Policy.<\/p>\n The authors say organic farming is also valuable, but people can help the environment even more by buying food from within a 20km (12-mile) radius.<\/p>\n They calculate that moving food long distances can cause more harm than non-organic farming methods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This struck me particularly hard as my wife and I were shopping at Whole Foods yesterday… I noticed they were selling organic oranges grown in California. From this report, I had to gather that any environmental benefits of organic growth were, at the very least, negated by shipping it halfway across the country…<\/p>\n Technorati tags: organic<\/a>, local<\/a>, food<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Been meaning to get this post on organic and locally-grown food from Cascadia Scorecard Weblog up for several days (WorldChanging beat me to it). It links to a BBC report [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n