Sentences with phrase «large food miles»

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I live 100 miles from any large city or Whole foods store.

Over here in the UK (I must live within 20 miles of him) the stats show that 69 % of all food purchased in this country is precooked - ready to heat and eat -(lobster newburgh in a plastic bag - ugh) It is so bad that it is becoming difficult to find basic ingredients (unless you have a very large bank account) and even when you do thery are in small packets.

The watershed of the world's third largest estuary — the Chesapeake Bay — covers 64,000 square miles and is home to almost 18 million people who benefit from the flood control, food sources and recreational opportunities that the ecosystem provides.

A tall man needs larger portions than a petite woman, and a person who goes for a 5 - mile run every day requires more food than someone who rarely works out.

During the two days I spent at the recent Natural Products Expo West — the nation's largest annual foods show — I logged over 14 miles on the massive convention floor and sampled many of the 3,000 - plus exhibitors.

Efforts have included reuniting people with displaced pets at Baytown Animal Shelter and in the community; providing pet food and supplies to help keep people and their pets together; assisting with adoptions at the shelter and through large - scale adoption events; recruiting new foster families to rescue pets from the shelter; expanding our roster of rescue partners and transporting pets to reputable organizations within a 200 - mile radius of Baytown; and working with veterinarian partners to provide low - cost and free services to rescued and owned pets.

We mix this with the large breed adult foot since it is higher calorie than his prior food - that would be my only warning, he did gain a lot of weight when we switched to this food as it is a MUCH higher protein and calorie count (which is good, we just can't go run miles when it's 120 + in the summer months.)

Cardholders are awarded 2 miles for every dollar spent on gas and grocery store purchases — a big perk for families that spend a large amount on road trips and food — and 1 mile for every dollar spent on anything else.

To be considered a food desert, at least 500 people or 33 percent of an area's population must live further than one mile from a supermarket or large grocery store.

[M] any people have latched onto the local - food movement, billing themselves «locavores,» as an antidote to the energy used to transport food long distances and the energy intensity of large - scale industrialized agriculture... Strangely enough, shipping food thousands of miles can sometimes require less energy, emit less carbon dioxide and do less environmental damage.

But as this chart shows if you include the emissions from actually getting to the store in the food miles total, how we each get to the store has an amazingly larger impact that how far the items we buy travelled to the store.

Located 18 miles from downtown Portland, it is home to large employers like Mentor Graphics, Xerox, FLIR Systems, Sysco Food Services and Coca - Cola.