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Originally Posted by polak
Locally grown in a place like Alberta is almost ALWAYS worse for the enviroment.
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Yup, the lowest energy input is to grow things in the highest yield area of the earth (usually somewhere poor so it's mostly manual labor) and ship it here. The energy used by those massive cargo liners is nearly insignificant to the whole process. You produce more C02 driving to the grocery store to pick up your produce than was produced getting it there from all ends of the earth.