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Massimo Sciacca for The New York Times

The New York Times digs up some examples of extravagant and silly food miles. "Cod caught off Norway is shipped to China to be turned into filets, then shipped back to Norway for sale. Argentine lemons fill supermarket shelves on the Citrus Coast of Spain, as local lemons rot on the ground. Half of Europe’s peas are grown and packaged in Kenya."

And not just fruit and vegetables; Britain imports -and exports- 15,000 tons of waffles every year. “We’re shifting goods around the world in a way that looks really bizarre" says economist Paul Watkiss.“We are not paying the environmental cost of all that travel.”