Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Find out where your lunch has come from

The average kiwi fruit flown in from New Zealand travels 12,000 miles to be part of your lunch.

And, according to the experts, that kiwi fruit creates five times its own weight in greenhouse gases, getting here.

Which might lead you to imagine that the little fruit spent the entire trip farting.

(As quite a lot of people do on planes. And most of them are oblivious to the fact, because they're wearing huge ear-phones.)

But in fact it's just because of the fuel employed in getting the fruit here.

Still... if the image of a farting kiwi fruit makes you think twice about eating stuff flown in out of season, maybe it's a useful one.
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