Food is traveling farther.

• Position: UPDATES - Brief Article

See "The Irony of Climate," March/April 2005, p. 18

A British government study, reported in The Guardian, concludes that food consumed in the United Kingdom is traveling farther from source to retailers, and that shoppers are driving farther to bring it home. Food miles rose by 15 percent in the decade ending in 2002 and food transport now accounts for one-quarter of heavy truck miles. Food transport costs have reached [pounds...