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This is nothing new and
June 6, 2007 by belg4 mit (not verified), 2 years 24 weeks ago
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This is nothing new and indeed not limited to organic produce. If you're buying at a farmer's market (closer, more likely to be organic) you win doubly. Organic from Whole Foods probably comes from the other side of the country (salad to the east coast, peaches and citrus to the west, everything to the middle). Same goes for your conventional crops. Some plants grow best in certain climates (FL orange juice needn't worry about MA OJ anytime soon).
And what about those berries and watermelon you insist on buying in the offseason, all the way from Chile? Transportation=pollution is not news! Are most people oblivious of how this relates to their food, and its source? Probably. But this isn't anything worthy of "new" research, and rather smacks of trying to take the shine off of organic apples by conventional farmers.