Food miles

Many common fruits and vegetables travel for thousands of miles around the planet before they reach their final destination. Transport is often by air, then road, both of which consume vast amounts of fossil fuels, contributing to atmospheric pollution and ultimately to global warming. The number of so-called "food miles" traveled by supposedly "fresh" produce can be enormous, resulting in much food being eaten a... 

Local production Saves on food miles allows you to taste fruits and cultivars that would never make it into a supermarket... 

Social justice has not been an integral part of the construction of the organic movement (Guthman 2004). Yet, today we are witnessing the emergence of new movements or perhaps a rejuvenation of existing movements, that seek to promote fair trade and new codes of conduct. The introduction of new concepts such as chain transparency, food chain awareness, food miles, just food and sweat shops, and the appearance of bestseller books like Past Pood Nation, suggest an increased public concern about food that transcends health, taste and price, to include the social costs of food production. 

It has been proposed that the absorption of ultrasound energy depends on the thermo-elastic relaxation of ice crystals in food and is affected by ice crystal orientation and size, impurities present in the ice crystals, as well as temperature (Kissam et al., 1981). Miles and Shore (1978) and Shore et al. (1986) found that ultrasound was more attenuated in frozen meats than in unfrozen tissues and that the attenuation increased markedly with temperature, reaching the maximum near the initial freezing points of the foods before decreasing rapidly at higher temperatures, thus making ultrasound particularly suitable for the controlled thawing of foods (Miles et al., 1999 Torley and Bhandari, 2007). 

Buy local where possible Find out where your local farmers markets are located. Supporting your own farming industry is crucial to sustaining local communities and reducing food miles. Without our farmers and small independent stores, we won t have such a choice in how we shop or what we eat. 

Buy locally produced food wherever you can to help to reduce food miles —the total distance that food is transported from field to plate. 

Now we can move discussion from totalizing theories of risk toward preference for local or organic food. While organics may protect health from BSE, rejection of local in favour of organic-industrial products, shipped many food miles from... 

It is well established that fatty acids are an essential component of human nutrition (Burr and Burr, 1929) besides being the densest dietary energy source, they have important structural roles in the human body. Fatty acids that cannot be synthesised by humans are considered essential and must be provided by the intake of food (Miles and Calder, 1998). 

Chung-Chi H, Cheng-Han W (2008) Capacity allocation ordering, and pricing decisions in a supply chain with demand and supply chain uncertainties. Eur J Oper Res 184 667-684 Coley DA, Howard M, Winter M (2009) Local food, food miles and caibon emissions A comparison of farm shop and mass distribution approaches. Food Policy 34(2) 150-155 Dabbene F, Gay P, Tortia C (2014) Traceability issues in food supply chain management A review. Biosyst Eng 120 65-80... 

In recent years there has been a growing awareness amongst consumers of the issue of food miles - in other words how far food travels from its origin to the point of final consumption - and what the impact of this might be on carbon emissions. The item highlighted below is indicative of this growing concern. 

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