I have been thinking about this a lot. Not just related to food, but related to any product.
Consider this. Recently I bought and read a book called ‘Love And Terror On The Howling Plains Of Nowhere’ by author Poe Ballantine. A publisher’s review can be found here for those interested in finding out more about it – http://hawthornebooks.com/catalogue/love-and-terror-on-the-howling-plains-of-nowhere
The book was written by an American and published by an American publishing house. It was printed in China on paper that may have come from anywhere, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia . . .
It was sent back to the US for distribution and I bought it online from The Book Depository who sent it to me from the UK. It cost a little over twenty bucks with free postage.
The point is that this single book has travelled around the world racking up mileage along the way, all of which costs money and all with a cost to the environment.
Now food is like that as we buy oranges from California, pineapples from Asia, and apples from New Zealand and millions of tons of processed foods from China. It has become so absurd that as the makers of the video ‘The Economics Of Happiness’ point out, we are seeing “apples sent from the UK to South Africa to be washed and waxed, then shipped back to British supermarkets; tuna caught off the coast of America, flown to Japan to be processed, then flown back to the US”.
In fact any product is like that as we trundle down the path to globalisation and I reckon it’s time to put a stop to it. In Queensland, according to the Qld Government, there are 403,000 small businesses employing about half of all Queenslanders. The money we spend locally goes back into the community. And I put my money where my mouth is by having my website built by a local, my computer repaired by a local and I shop locally as much as possible. I’m also involved in a local initiative to start a ‘community farm’ to work towards a food independence, at least as far as fresh veges and fruits are concerned.
Let’s all buy locally where we can.
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