The 100 Mile Diet
No it's not another weight loss diet. This is all about where your food comes from.
Also known as "locavores" - this group are aiming to only eat food grown or produced within a 100 mile radius.
This is a fascinating concept - and is borne out of questioning the organic food argument:
Does it really help save the planet if your vegetarian burrito is filled with organically grown beans from New Mexico and wrapped in a tortilla made with genetically unmodified corn from Nebraska? Not if it has to be shipped from Berkeley in a gas-gulping semi.There are complex models that people use in all this, formulas that work out our economic "footprint" and show how many resources we burn just moving food from one place to another.
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The other day I saw an episode of the old TV western Gun Smoke. I only watched a few minutes, but a guy was musing over the value of investing in a small company that was taking black goo out of the ground. He wasn't too sure what that might be good for though or if anybody would buy it for anything but burning lanterns.
We know that before the discovery of crude oil people ate within a much smaller circle than 100 miles. Why not? The whole state of California nearly is a bounty of sea food and farming.
Here in the Mojave desert, we wouldn't get seafood, but if we can grow 50+ golf courses in this valley why can't we grow farms. This may be the risky investment of the future like that black gold was. We can avoid driving. We can't avoid eating and some think oil is going to get used up.
ReplyI think it's a fantastic idea - however due to the massive urbanisation in the 21st century our cities would need to start investing in inner-city gardens etc.
ReplyCheck out 100milediet.org. This is a great website, for a great movement.
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