Food miles encouraging consumers to purchase locally-grown food
date:May 14, 2013
o affect the environment, since the transport vehicles release pollution into the atmosphere and consume natural fuels.

Origins

British professor Tim Lang established the concept of food miles in the early 1990s whilst he was working for the Sustainable Agriculture Food and Environment Alliance. However, the first person to mention the term in print was Angela Paxton, who wrote a report entitled The Food Miles Report: The Dangers of Long Distance Transport shortly after Lang coined the term. E

07/17 21:51