High School Reading Grades 9 10 Quiz
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The concept of "food miles"—the distance food travels from producer to consumer—has become popular shorthand for environmental impact. Buy local, the reasoning goes, and reduce your carbon footprint. But researchers have increasingly questioned whether food miles capture what matters. A 2008 study by Carnegie Mellon researchers found that transportation accounts for only about eleven percent of the average American food's greenhouse gas emissions; production accounts for eighty-three percent. This means that a lamb chop raised on grass in New Zealand and shipped to London may generate fewer emissions than one raised on grain in England, even after accounting for the journey. Similarly, greenhouse-grown local tomatoes in winter can carry a heavier climate cost than tomatoes trucked from sunnier regions. The food-miles concept, critics argue, satisfies a desire for simple moral clarity but obscures the more complicated arithmetic of actual environmental harm.
Which quotation from the passage provides the strongest evidence that focusing on food miles can lead consumers to make environmentally worse choices?
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