Help!!! How far does our food travel?

So i am ding a reaserch project on the pineapple. Does anybody know how many miles it travels to get to vermont? Or, if not, any sites where i can find out?

it is not technically your food until you eat it, and it is not yours any more when you get rid of it, so it depends on how tall you are when you are sitting down.


OK OK
google earth will calculate the distance between points on the globe. You need to know where it was grown, and where you ate it.
Even then, it could have come by way of china so you really don't know.

An interesting thought about food travelling distances involves how much energy is expended to get the food to you, including food preparation, packaging, cooling, transportation, etc, and how much energy that food can put into your body. Once you establish a break even point, you begin to realize that long-distance food makes no sense from an energy perspective.
The question becomes, should I eat pineapples in Vermont?

LW is right on!

Barbara Kingsolver, in "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" states that it costs 87 calories in fuel alone to move one calorie of fresh fruit from California to New York.