AlexH

The Tyee has a very interesting article called Living on the Hundred-Mile Diet, and the second part of the story was published recently.

The concept is interesting. Vegetarianism still has a large environmental footprint. It is better for the environment to be consuming things that are in a 100 mile radius of you. This means that even things like bread made locally can only be bought if the ingredients are all made locally.

In BC, there are a few things that make this a bit easier:

• Wild salmon and other seafood
• Nomad cows (I love that pun)
• Farmer’s Markets

Other links can be found in my del.icio.us page, under the tag ‘organic‘

I’m going to head out to the UBC Farm this weekend to check out the eggs, and after that I’ll head to the Farmer’s Market to get some salad mix.