The New Zealand apple industry, which exports more than 80 percent of its crop, is trying to turn attention from the long distance it ships the fruit to the low-input methods used to produce it. Last year, researchers at Lincoln University in New Zealand issued a report in which they concluded that “food miles” was too simplistic a concept. To consider only the distance food travels was spurious, they said, as it did not consider the energy used in production. The report compares the energy use and carbon dioxide emissions associated with producing agricultural products in New Zealand and in […]