IF YOU want to do your bit to save the planet, try walking or cycling to the supermarket or having your food delivered. Don’t imagine you can save the world by buying home-grown produce instead of exotic imports, if you then drive it home.
That’s the message for consumers from a comprehensive analysis of the environmental costs of food in the UK. The study has implications for all industrialised nations with similar patterns of food production and distribution.
“Go local is the key,” says Jules Pretty of the University of Essex in Colchester and head of the team which conducted the analysis. It concludes that shuttling food by road and rail within…
