Many fruits have a long way into the Shop. Kiwi fruits are flown from New Zealand to England 12,000 miles and produce five times more greenhouse gases as their weight. Shops buy many fruits from other countrys for a big selection during the whole year.
For example you can buy strawberrys all the time from other countrys. But strawberrys have in may to august in Germany better tastes as in wintertimes from other countrys.
You don´t know what the producers are doing, if they use illegal pesticide or child labour for the fruits.
The transport with the airplane produce on the first 20km, 1000 times more polluting emissions as a car from type GolfIV. The German Lufthansa have a average comsumption from 4,9l kerosine for 100 passenger-km and on one barrel cargo-km comes 10 passenger-km.
That are 80% emissions more as a car produced.
Eight times more as on the streets and 50 times more with the train.
You should eat seasonal fruits from your country. The fruits have a better taste and you know where they grow up.
Think twice about eating what you eat and if it makes sense to buy fruits from other countrys.
Authority:
http://web.me.com/andreas.hess/teltow-gegen-fluglaerm.de/L%C3%A4rm_files/Treibstoffverbrauch%20von%20Pkw%20und%20Flugzeug-%20Vergleich.pdf
Fruits and vegetables will be harvest as they where green. The result is that they don`t have many vitamins
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