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Germany: Environmental organisation: No flown in fruit and vegetables

Consumers organisations stir regularly and at the moment an organisation from Bavaria is calling for people to stop eating fruit and vegetables that have been flown into the country during the winter, from an environmental point of view. Fresh mangoes, beans or asparagus are attractive in the winter, but, says the group, they have a negative effect on the climate balance and therefore are not recommend from an ecological point of view. Easily perishable foods from outside of Europe are almost certainly imported by plane.

"The more easily perishable food is, the more likely it is that it was transported by air", says Andrea Danitschek of the consumers organisation. "Whilst bananas are almost exclusively transported by ship to Europe, easily perishable fruits such as papaya's are only imported by plane. Transportation by plane produces up to 220 times more climate damaging CO2 production per kilo of fruit and vegetables than ship transport. For the good of the climate people should therefore stop consuming flown in food."

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