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Mexican tomatoes can be more sustainable than local ones


#165 of 165 articles from the Special Report:
Food Insider
Greenhouses heated with passive solar heat can be used year-round in B.C., says Michael Bomford, a professor of sustainable agriculture at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Photo by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Finding sustainable produce in a Canadian winter is cause for nightmarish confusion. Months of eating in-season vegetables cabbage, carrots, celeriac compete with the looming environmental impacts of imported food.
Many people buy local, believing the tomatoes, peppers, and other vegetables grown locally in greenhouses are more sustainable than imports that are trucked thousands of kilometres to Canadian shops.
But shopping sustainably doesn’t always mean buying local. A tomato grown in a Mexican field and trucked north is about six times more climate-friendly than one raised in a Canadian gas-heated greenhouse. ....

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