food miles

• how many miles products have to travel to get to desired destination
• disadvantages

  • ai pollution
  • expensive to travel by air - higher prices
• UK dependant on imports

  • pollution increases
  • growing interest in local produce and being environmentally friendly
  • eat seasonal foods
• response

  1. agribusiness - farms ran like large businesses - high investment, new technology and chemicals
  2. organic farming - farming without the use of pesticides, fertilisers, genetically modified organisms, chemicals, growth hormones, antibiotics