Perhaps not, but how much environmental costInnocent Bystander wrote:That should be comforting to vegetarians. However.. My bananas come from the West Indies, my apples from South Africa, and my rice from the U.S. It's not good.
would it require to create greenhouses that could
grow enough bananas within the UK for its citizens?
I have also heard it said that it is more efficient to
ship food over the Atlantic than to truck it from
California (which grows most of our veggies) to the
East Coast. Too bad NC soil has such a hard time
growing much besides tobacco and Muscadine grapes,
else we could make up more of that East Coast devide.
Also, I didn't know we grew rice in the US. Huh. Looks
like mostly in Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri.
Interesting.