Food Miles & Kenya’s Roses

Oxfam has called on consumers to not blindly change their purchasing pattern because of the food mile concept.

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from: Oxfam

Their argument that Africa’s poor deserve support is a good one but saying that hothouse raised roses are worse than Kenyan roses from a carbon footprint view forgets that roses can be grown in the garden or even a flowerpot – that is surely the smallest footprint!

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