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100 Mile Diet
When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles from farm to plate. That’s a total disconnection from where our food is coming from. What would it be like to eat locally for one year?
On the first day of spring, 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon drew a 100-mile circle around our home in Vancouver, Canada. The 100-Mile Diet was born.
Local Eating’s Unlikely Capital
Check out the most recent instalment of the series that started it all…By J.B. MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, August 8, 2006
The 100-Mile Diet wasn’t good enough for the good people of Powell River, B.C. No, living on a peninsula that connects to the outside world only by boat begs a different definition of local. A few quick measurements on the map and…the “50 Mile Local Food for Change Challenge” was born.
“As of this minute, there are more than 250 people signed up,” said Lyn Adamson as I pulled up to the Powell River farmers’ market for July’s inaugural 50-mile potluck lunch in this town of 13,000.
Adamson, a key organizer for the challenge, had originally hoped to get 50 people eating food grown or raised within 50 miles for five weeks. Instead, Powell River has become the local-eating capital of North America. Participants sign a pledge to eat locally at levels ranging from 25 to 95 per cent (leaving enough wiggle room for a cup of coffee). The concept has taken off, involving local grocers, butchers and fish shops; four different restaurants now serve at least one 50-mile meal each week. In Powell River, there is suddenly a huge demand for food that has travelled barely three per cent of the typical distance conventional produce moves from farm to plate.
Italians Tout 0-Mile Diet The site is all in Italian.
October 26, 2006…By Sandra Chiarato
PADOVA, ITALY— Hello! I’m a journalist. I work for an apolitical organization of farmers in Italy called Coldiretti. I send you my news about “zero mile diet”. The same philosophy. We think is better!!!!
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