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Green Eating: By the Numbers
- 30 percent: Increase in both fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions caused from shipping a pound of apples from a farm in Iowa to a market in Washington, compared to shipping those apples to a local market in Iowa.
- 5: Number of countries the average U.S. meal comes from.
- 1500 to 2500: Number of miles food travels between farm and market. That’s 25 percent farther than it traveled two decades ago.
- 958: Liters of water it takes to make one liter of orange juice; 958 liters of water for irrigation, 2 liters of fuel for tractors, water-pumping, pesticide spraying, and the occasional electric heater to ward off frost.
- 8000: Kilometers worth of travel required to gather all the ingredients to make strawberry yogurt in Germany.
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