Food Miles

Understand food miles and their environmental impact, plus how choosing locally-sourced British produce reduces your carbon footprint.

How Far Has Your Food Travelled?

Why Does Food Travel? In today's global economy, food can be grown anywhere in the world and if there is demand for it elsewhere, it will be purchased and su...

What Are Food Miles?

Food miles are the literal miles of distance that a particular item of food travels during its production and until it gets to consumer. Some supermarket cha...

What You Can Do To Limit Food Miles

Food miles are one of the modern world’s complicated additions to food production. They add often-unnecessary transportation with the stresses of environme...

Why Does Food Travel?

If you take a look at your local supermarket or corner store you will see food of all types that has travelled many miles - known as food miles - to the stor...