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  • From: treaclemine@intranet.org
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] Regional sustainable diets
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:04:17 -0600

Greetings,

Does anyone know of any detailed analyses of what would be
modern, sustainable self-sufficient diets in various rich regions of
the world? For example, if the UK decided to minimise the national
food miles, and eat only UK-grown food, grown sustainably, could we do
it? Would we have to become largely vegetarian or vegan to feed
ourselves - I believe that soy, most rice, and many pulses are not
suitable to grow in the UK, and if so, how would we replace them in a
vegan diet?

(BTW I'm sure we could make a case for continuing to import
small quantities of low volume, high added value luxuries via sea
freight, such as Fairtrade chocolate :-)

Thanks in advance for pointers!

Amanda in the UK

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