Can locavores survive in Britain?
The word 1.locavores comes from San Francisco in California. Locavores try to eat local food. That isn’t difficult in this part of the USA, because there’s a lot of farmland. Fruit and vegetables grow in the sea has lots of fish. The locavores freeze food in the summer so that they always have food during the winter. They want to help the fight against global warming. ‘Most food comes from many different countries. Some is local, but some comes from thousands of miles away. The average distance each item of food travels is 1,500 miles! That’s a lot of fuel,‘ says one of the group.
Now some British people want to try this idea. ’Meat and dairy products are no problem,’ says Reg Smythe from Birmingham. ‘The only thing we can’t have is foreign fruit like bananas, melons of grapes. And we can only eat strawberries in June when they grow in England, but that’s all right. There’s a something exciting when you eat the first strawberry of the year. Shops sell South African strawberries in December. It’s not the same!’
The word 1.locavores comes from San Francisco in California. Locavores try to eat local food. That isn’t difficult in this part of the USA, because there’s a lot of farmland. Fruit and vegetables grow in the sea has lots of fish. The locavores freeze food in the summer so that they always have food during the winter. They want to help the fight against global warming. ‘Most food comes from many different countries. Some is local, but some comes from thousands of miles away. The average distance each item of food travels is 1,500 miles! That’s a lot of fuel,‘ says one of the group.
Now some British people want to try this idea. ’Meat and dairy products are no problem,’ says Reg Smythe from Birmingham. ‘The only thing we can’t have is foreign fruit like bananas, melons of grapes. And we can only eat strawberries in June when they grow in England, but that’s all right. There’s a something exciting when you eat the first strawberry of the year. Shops sell South African strawberries in December. It’s not the same!’