Sentences with phrase «says food miles»

Jay Rayner says food miles are not the problem in an article in the Guardian.

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Derstine's distributes food to independently owned restaurants in the 80 - mile radius around its headquarters in Sellersville, Pa. «We have more than 15,000 products in our database and stock over 4,000 of them, which cover all temperature zones,» Derstine says.

«Online delivery of imported fresh food in China is becoming increasingly viable as a result of improvements in last - mile cold chain logistics,» Clifton said.

«If we had traveled 1,200 miles to «butcher wantonly,»» says the author, «we would most certainly not have ventured beyond our camp with shotguns, since it would have been easy to use the Eskimo's method for getting food] of killing off an entire flock with rifles or sticks while they slept on the ground.»

In response to written questions, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegetables.

If your own kids can sniff out a fry from a mile away, though, rest assured that you're not alone — 76 percent of BabyCenter parents say they rely on fast food a few times a month or more.

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» said Ella August, Ph.D., co-lead author who initiated the study and clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

People argue against it by saying, «Hey, you know the carbon footprint of flying food thousands of miles is ridiculous so we should grow [things] locally» but the counter argument is, but if you can grow so much wheat sufficiently in Kansas even including the transportation for thousands of miles it's still more efficient in terms of resources.

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» co-lead author Ella August said in a journal news release.

That said, if you are consuming a whole plant - food based diet which happens to include some vegan smoothies, you are miles and miles above what so many other people are eating.

OCOEE - Five acid - filled bombs exploded Sunday within a roughly three - quarter - square - mile area, damaging three vehicles and spurring an investigation.No one was hurt in the explosions, which occurred in north Ocoee and just outside the city limits during a six - hour period.Officials think someone took plastic bottles and filled them with acid and another chemical, creating an explosive mixture that eventually ruptured the bottles and let loose a spray of corrosive chemicals.The first two bombs went off before 6 a.m. in a food store parking lot at Adair Street and Clarcona Road, said Ocoee police Detective Bernard Williams.

what if your cats not vomiting, but appears to have diarrhea and it seem pasty but he drinks water and doesn't seem to have a loss of appetite and he seem a little bit sneezy but hes still playfull and not slow paced what could that mean, in addition he eats friskys wet and dry cat food but purrfers the wet food, but its not his usual bm cycle not that i pay much attention in that area just yesterday he was sitting on the kitchen floor and when he got up and moved he left a little size spot on the floor of what looked like undigested cat food, so i kind of kept an eye on him scince then and thats what brings me to this question if i gave him a can of Vienna sausages the night before could that havr caused it and if so is it temporary because i usually keep him on his diet of kitty foods but love him so much i like to give him treats now and then, and i had a kitten for about 7 months and she was fine the whole time but one day she layed down and she wouldent get up and i give them medicine for prts from the pharmacy dewormer flea and tick soap but it was within i say half hour from playing to lathargic and in my city the closes vet is 14 miles away none closer so i went to a vet website and said talk to a vet free but when it came to them giving me advice they wanted a credit card # and $ 35.00 witch i would have given them gladly but i do nt have a credit card, not even 15 min.after filling 24 min.

Prosecutors said he sailed an inflatable boat 11 miles across the Santa Barbara Channel to Anacapa and fed rats food laced with vitamin K.

May I just say that I am really surprised that designers and marketers are not making more of an effort to help us all Get GROWING (G Y 0) so we all can even in part lower our food miles.

«Condors can travel 200 miles in a day», said Jesse Grantham, the California condor coordinator for the Fish & Wildlife Service, «as the bird forages for food or takes a road trip on a whim to satisfy its curiosity.

That isn't to say it is necessarily negative, but just that focusing on food miles as the most important criteria in judging a food system IS dangerous.

There is still some debate over the carbon accounting and the circumstances will differ by product but its safe to say that a focus on food miles is unmerited by the evidence.

They say, for example, that it could be better to import food produced efficiently in New Zealand, despite the food miles.

«Its rules are evolving, as Mr. Beavan will tell you, but to date include eating only food (organically) grown within a 250 - mile radius of Manhattan; (mostly) no shopping for anything except said food; producing no trash (except compost); using no paper; and, most intriguingly, using no carbon - fueled transportation.»

I hope for you that as my 11 - year - old son says, you have mile high mountain of mashed potatoes, ham or turkey that fills the house with hot and divine smells and enough food to feed an army of Gorillas (we may or may not be watching a lot of the Flash lately.)