"Each food item in a typical US meal has traveled an avg of 1500 miles. ......fuel-thirsty steps include processing, packaging, warehouseing, and refrigeration. If every US citizen ate just one meal a week composed of local/organic meat & produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 mil barrels of oil EVERY WEEK."
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
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