[Extra] Food Mileage

Food Mileage

The food mileage, it is a moving distance where the food has been produced, to go up on the tables of consumers. The concept of food miles, consumer activists 'Chimuren' in the UK was used for the first time in 1994. In situations where dependence on foreign supply of agricultural products is growing, such as greenhouse gas emissions safety of imported agricultural products, freshness, to the mobile has emerged in the new interest of consumer, agricultural products produced as close as possible recently, claim food safety is high can consume, and to reduce the environmental pollution caused by the transport is spreading around the environmental groups and European consumers.

Korea's Food mileage is increasingly growing. 
Japan, the UK, France, all food mileage is less than 2003, but the country continues to increase food mileage Koreans appeared to be a dining table that you might have taken out food imports.