Creative Citizen 0 0 1000.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1 2007-09-17T21:06:30+00:00 true <p><br />A goal of a local food system might be to minimize food transport distance, known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_miles" title="Food miles">food miles</a>. A consumer report published in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> newspaper in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a> found that a selection of 20 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fresh_food&amp;action=edit" title="Fresh food" class="new">fresh food</a> items purchased from British supermarkets had travelled an average of 5,000 miles each<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,952682,00.html" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,952682,00.html" class="external autonumber">[1]</a>; in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a>, an average fresh food transport distance of 1,000-1,500 miles is often cited. Transport costs must consider <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight" title="Weight">weight</a> as well as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance" title="Distance">distance</a>. If food is processed, it may lose <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight" title="Weight">weight</a> compared with unprocessed food. To the extent it is processed nearer production, less weight is transported a longer distance. If it is processed by the consumer, more weight may be transported, though the trip from production to processing can be avoided. The amount of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel" title="Fossil fuel">fossil fuel</a> consumed and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions released in the atmosphere of more local, unprocessed food compared with less local, processed food are thus ambiguous. This issue is addressed by the field of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_science" title="Regional science">regional science</a>. </p> 0 0 false 1 1 72 false 72 habit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_food 14 false 0 Buy Local Food 0 2010-01-12T13:49:24+00:00 274 1817 0 0