Sentences with phrase «buying produce shipped»

I do know that if people are buying produce shipped from around the world the impact on our environment is huge.

Buy produce shipped from half way around the world where it is in season; or 2.

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Purchasing these fruits and veggies is also more affordable than buying produce out - of - season, which usually has to be shipped in from another country.

Obviously, when we buy «out of season» the produce has to be shipped across the world to reach us, significantly adding to that environmental cost.

Given the amount of beef that we use and the quantity of water required to produce it, it was more sustainable to have Australian beef shipped here than it was to buy local.

The best thing about Spring so far has been buying produce that's not potatoes or shipped from the other side of the country at the supermarket.

If you're into Amway, these are the folks you'll be happy buying your shipped to Texas organic produce from.

Today, cheap shipping and global outsourcing mean that more and more of what Western consumers buy is produced far away.

Certainly it is better to buy organic rather than conventional produce in the supermarket, or to ship in pastured beef from out of state if none is locally available, but this is only a small first step toward real food.

We buy them from the produce section of our local supermarket, but have no idea how long they've been sitting there after being picked and shipped.

And yes, I hardly see the value of buying organic produce that has to be shipped from so far away, likely picked far before ripeness and diminishing in nutritional value from the moment it has been harvested.

id has produced some of the most genre - defining PC FPS games in the history of the industry, but Nix realizes that the console market is just too large to ignore, «I know I have friends who are considered core gamers, who years ago were just keyboard and mouse guys — now, when a game ships on all platforms, they buy the console version, even though they have a PC version sitting there and they have a PC that would run it perfectly well.

When we buy something produced overseas we are paying for it to be transported a long distance — petroleum is burned to fuel the ship or plane.

Not only that, it will be a campaign issue in 2016: candidates siding with Whitehouse will have a hard time among any constituencies that have anybody who produces, ships, buys, or sells fossil fuels.

Buying a shirt the second time around means you avoid consuming all the energy used in producing and shipping a new one and, therefore, the carbon emissions associated with it.»

They are too expensive for this clientele to buy and so cheap, filling produce is shipped from around the world.