Germany: Environmental organisation: No flown in fruit and vegetables
"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."