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Do you know where your food really comes from? Maddie and Greg are here to investigate 'food miles' and whether buying an apple from New Zealand has a bigger carbon footprint than growing one locally in the UK. Do we need to look beyond the food miles by air, truck and boat to really understand the carbon footprint of the food we are eating? For easy reference through each section of this episode, see timestamps below; links to the resources referred to in this episode, are also below.

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Presented and filmed by Maddie Moate & Greg Foot.
Edited by Stuart Lanceley.

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction to Food Miles
1:17 Shopping for Fresh Fruit & Vegetables
1:49 Food frequently imported from overseas
3:40 Country of Origin labels
4:18 Greg gets researching
6:03 Let's get a local delivery
6:51 But how local is it really?
8:57 Let's go & get our own local food
10:04 Greenhouse Grown? Energy Hungry!
12:36 How & When Food is Grown is key
13:29 Eating Locally & Seasonally
14:40 Home Grown Options
15:36 Carbon Footprint Labelling?
16:10 Maddie & Greg's way forward
17:00 Global Food Waste
17:49 Vegan Easter Egg

Resources referred to in the episode:
‘Sustainable Food Systems and the Mediterranean Diet’ - Sept 2019:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

DEFRA Report - July 2005:
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.g...

London Mayor’s Food Strategy - May 2006:
https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/defau...

Independent Aug 2019:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/fo...

‘Food Miles, Carbon Footprinting and their potential impact on trade’:
https://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz...

‘Climate-Smart Food’ by Professor David Reay:
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783...

Guardian article on Tesco’s plan to introduce carbon labelling:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/...
And one on when they dropped the plan:
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

Independent article on Quorn’s plan to launch carbon labelling: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...

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