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Most consumers have no idea where their food comes from, and quite frankly most of them don't care. If it’s on the supermarket shelves at the same price they bought if for last week, then that's good enough for them. Well http://www.nbacavaliersprostore.com/kids-jordan-clarkson-cavaliers-jersey/ , it’s not good enough if that freight of carrots spent all night on the road being transported from a farm several hundred miles away, when there is a perfectly good farm that also grows carrots twenty miles in the other direction. The ludicrous part of it is that the farm 20 miles away is probably supplying a different supermarket 300 miles away! Why is this?


Supermarket company buyers have a set list of farms where they source their goods from. Doesn't matter how far away it may be from some of their outlets if they're spread across the country, as is often the case. So a farm that may be 20 miles away from the first supermarket outlet will transport carrots or cabbages to that outlet and also to all the other outlets across the country, because they have an exclusive contract with that particular supermarket chain.


This practise may seem simple and logistically centralized http://www.nbacavaliersprostore.com/kids-j-r-smith-cavaliers-jersey/ , but it costs not just money to transport the freight of carrots and cabbages across the country, but it also costs in truck fuel usage and the pollution it causes. Not to mention that while the carrots may be fresh when they arrive at the first supermarket on the route, by the time they get to the last one, they're a day older.


The solution to this transportation craziness is obvious. That is to supply each supermarket with the bulk of its fresh produce from a local farm that diversifies to produce a wide range of food crops. That cuts down to the minimum any transportation costs and time. It cuts pollution and also ensures that the produce reaches the store while it is still fresh.


Will that happen? Well http://www.nbacavaliersprostore.com/kids-george-hill-cavaliers-jersey/ , in the case of some smaller store chains, they are seeing the light and adopting exactly this principal. But it’s still only on a very small scale compared to the mighty supermarket chains that continue to waste trucking fuel and money to keep up the pressure on their stranglehold on the food industry.