When you sit down for dinner tonight, just think of the long ____ your food has taken to get to your table. The ____ item of food in a British ____ has travelled 1,600 kilometres to get there. We use the ____ 'food miles' to ____ how far food travels from the place it's ____ until it gets to our table. Some people say that food miles will have a catastrophic effect on the ____ in the coming years, but others say that they aren't that important. Let's see what both sides have to say. There used to be a time when apples would only ____ in shops in the autumn in the UK, and strawberries in the summer. Now, however, we can eat just about everything at any time of the year. But, at what ____ for our planet? Just look at these facts: • 95% of fruit in the UK comes from ____, and 50% of vegetables. Some apples travel nearly 18,000 km from New Zealand to reach the UK!• 30% of all products ____ by lorry around the UK are food products. These lorry journeys ____ 25% of all CO ____. • Environmentally ____ planes carrying food are already responsible for 11% of all carbon emissions. Some food products like potatoes are often grown in one place, then travel somewhere else to be ____, and then travel back to near where they were grown to be sold! • Experts have ____ that if we all bought food produced within a 20 kilometre ____ from where we live, the country would save over two billion pounds in ____ costs.The message is ____. We need to produce food ____, and we need to buy locally produced food. It's cheap, it's environmentally ____ and it's natural. A while ago everybody started saying that food miles showed how the world was going mad. Producing apples in New Zealand or green beans in Africa and then flying them to the UK? Think of all the carbon ____ from flying all that ____! Scandalous! But let's think again. OK if we want UK apples in the summer we have to keep them cool for nearly a ____ year. But the ____ that you need to keep them ____ for ten months will be worse for the ____ than the carbon emissions created by air ____. Remember that we buy food from other countries because their weather ____ the ideal natural ____ for producing that food. You can ____ tomatoes in the UK in the winter, but you need ____ to heat the ____ to recreate the warm, sunny weather of Spain. That means that in the UK it makes ____ to buy Spanish tomatoes in the winter, even taking into ____ the food miles. And let's not ____ about the one million African workers, for example, who ____ on selling fruit and vegetables to the UK and other ____. If we stop buying food from other ____ of the world, it might have a catastrophic ____ on their economies, and then our own.

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