英语词汇“food mile”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

food mile n. British (as a unit of measurement) a mile over which a foodstuff is transported on its journey from producer to consumer; usually in plural.

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1993 Independent 23 Oct. (Weekend section) 35/1 Food miles..are part of the supermarket revolution. More than a third of the food we eat these days in Britain is imported. This produces an elongated food chain involving numerous intermediate links—processors, packers, hauliers.

1999 T. Tang in G. Tansey & J. D'Silva Meat Business xii. 131 The food mile was invented to convey these complexities [sc. of food distribution] in a way that could make sense to people.

2002 Express (Nexis) 5 Sept. 51 A pizza may travel a few miles to your door, but its individual ingredients have already travelled 20,000 food miles on average.

单词	food mile
释义	> as lemmas food mile food mile n. British (as a unit of measurement) a mile over which a foodstuff is transported on its journey from producer to consumer; usually in plural. ΚΠ 1993 Independent 23 Oct. (Weekend section) 35/1 Food miles..are part of the supermarket revolution. More than a third of the food we eat these days in Britain is imported. This produces an elongated food chain involving numerous intermediate links—processors, packers, hauliers. 1999 T. Tang in G. Tansey & J. D'Silva Meat Business xii. 131 The food mile was invented to convey these complexities [sc. of food distribution] in a way that could make sense to people. 2002 Express (Nexis) 5 Sept. 51 A pizza may travel a few miles to your door, but its individual ingredients have already travelled 20,000 food miles on average. extracted from foodn. < as lemmas
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