Re: reducing food miles

"Brimstone" <brimstone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It would be much better
if they used a cycle instead of a car for shopping.

And how do you transport a shopping-trolley load of food on a bicycle? Or
are you advocating that we should all get bicycle trailers, thus reducing
the distance that an average person can cycle. Or there's public transport,
but taking more than two or three bags on a bus or train is tedious and you
wouldn't want to walk any further than you really had to while carrying
them.

If there was a supermarket in every village, with the same range and
selection of produce as the existing ones in towns, then people should use
them. People nowadays lead busier lives and its rare to find a non-working
housewife who can spend the time travelling from one shop to another to buy
everything that's needed - that's the beauty of a supermarket with
everything under one roof.

It follows therefore that they can probably save much more in food
miles and fossil fuel by not shopping with a car.

Thus meaning that you have to spend a lot longer making more frequent
journeys to the shops by bike, bus or train because there is a much lower
limit to the amount you can carry on each journey than there is by car. Also
the journey time (especially end-to-end if there are changes of bus/train or
a lot of walking) is much greater.

An excellent demonstration of your lack of gumption.

Seems you favour a return to primitive living. You are not a hippie by
any chance are you?

What primitive living? You claim to want to do something about global
warming and yet when someone actually does something that reduces the
amount of pollution needed to sustain their life you sneer at it.

Would you expect people to regress to a sort of 17th century minimal travel
existence *willingly*? "Necessary evil" is the way most people will see it.

You really are a twisted, loathsome individual.

Pot, kettle, black!


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