Low carbon food - bring and buy, share ideas and a picnic

I thoroughly support the campaign to help us eat more sustainably. The food that we eat has travelled far too long a distance to reach us. Supermarkets now have centralised depots to which all the food is brought and then distributed out again. This sounds sensible until you look at the facts. Thus if a supermarket has a centralised depot in Buckinghamshire, lettuices grown in Kent, will go to the Depot in Buckinghamshire and then down again to say a branch in Sussex. An unnecessarily long journey. We need to have less long distance transportation for food. Full details are in Felicity Lawrence's book "Not on the Label". The lorries used to transport food also make living in towns more unpleasant. WE are using too much packaging. It is estimated that in England enough waste to fill the Albert Hall every day is produced. We are depleting the planet by eating too much of endangered fish stock. The blue fin tuna has been put on the endangered list recently as we are over fishing. A good account of this is in the book "End of the Line" and in the film of the book.