Food Miles - The Transport of Food

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The transport of food is the key point there. It's not the transport of anything else. I want to give my favorite example of these kind of surprising or counterintuitive results on environmental transport and environmentalism generally. The air around the spheres of the orange, the round is the orange, is a remarkably inefficient aspect. Doesn't mean it's decisive, but you'd want to take that into account. There might be better than your home strategy for squeezing oranges.

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