Link: The 100-mile Diet

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Taken from an e-mail from Organic Consumers Fund:

THE 100 MILE DIET

The everyday-American meal contains an assortment of foods that have

traveled an average of 2,000 miles to get from farm to fork. For those

concerned about energy conservation, greenhouse gases, and oil

dependence, the types of food we choose to eat are as important as the

types of cars we choose to drive (or avoid). Industrial agriculture and

long-distance food transportation generate between 20-25% of all

climate destabilizing greenhouse gases in the U.S. Given this fact,

buying food that is locally or regionally grown can dramatically reduce

energy consumption and greenhouse pollution.. The local food

movement has received a recent boost with the new trend of the " 100

mile diet, " the brainchild of Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon. " We're the

kind of people that ride our bikes everywhere, so we wondered why we

were going to all this effort when our food was flying around the world, "

says Smith. The diet trend, which requires participants to only eat foods

grown within a 100 mile radius, is catching on across North America.

Philadelphia journalist Elisa Ludwig took up the 100 mile diet for 12

days to learn more about the foods she eats. " If eating local is a moral

imperative, then every meal is an opportunity to do the right thing, " says

Ludwig, who kept a daily journal of the experience.

Read her journal entries here:

http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_1463.cfm

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Thanks for the link Ron!