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IN DEPTH: Most foods now travel an average of 2,400km from farm to plate

The energy required to transport 20th century meals is far higher than the energy they yield to your body and far more damaging to the environment than they were 50 years ago. Watch this incredible video that highlights the effects and global consequences of industrial farming. 

“There’s a constituency for change around the food system that there has never been in our lifetime” – Michael Pollen (author, journalist and activist).

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