I am absolutely fascinated by the 100 Mile Diet. Especially with the stat that “when the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1500 miles from farm to plate.”
Imagine all that gas, all those trucks, all that industry, that’s just gone in to my eating a potato with my frozen (but now cooked, obviously) tuna burger. I wouldn’t even know where to start. In my pale “environmentalism,” I carefully check the labels so that I’m buying Canadian produce, but that doesn’t mean that it still hasn’t travelled hours and hours and kilometres and kilometres to get to the grocery store.
That diet sounds like it means I wouldn’t be able to eat pineapple or bananas, and therefore: hell no.
You could, however, eat turnips. Did that do it for you?
Turnips. Heh!
Yes. Truly, the turnip is Ontario’s pineapple. (Hee.)