Re:India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food pr...
by Retric on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:49PM
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Hardly, it’s cherry picked in the other direction to favor local production due to the extreme distances involved. Compare veggies grown in Spain and shipped to London and the advantage is even later, but the distances are less impressive.
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Re:India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food pr...
by CameronNemo on Friday July 21, 2023 @04:17PM
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You're still taking a London centric view, which is very odd.
The context is India, remember. One of England's former colonies.
Re:India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food pr...
by Retric on Friday July 21, 2023 @07:31PM
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The study was comparing food consumed in the UK not India. It wasn’t suggesting producing apples/milk/lamb in New Zealand was the best option, just that it was more environmentally friendly for people in the UK to eat an Apple from New Zealand than that which was produced locally. Clearly there’s other options that involve less shipping.
> concluded that lamb imported from New Zealand is four times as energy efficient as lamb reared in the UK, even when carbon emissions from the transport process are taken into account.”
> The report shows apples and dairy products also have a smaller carbon footprint – half the size, in the case of dairy – when they are imported from New Zealand rather than UK-sourced.
> Professor Caroline Saunders, who led the research, said, “Food that has travelled long distances is perceived as being harmful to the environment and has some media attention in our key markets, especially Europe.