At the beginning when I searched an article about apples in conjunction with our globalisation theme. I tried to choose some examples of apples coming from far away.
But finally I was very surprised how far is far away. Very quickly, I found an article on the “stern” site concerning apples comming from Argentinia. Also there was said [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Reflection
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Organic apples from Argentinia
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The organic apple plantation of Luis M.. is one of about five apple plantations in Rio Negro(Agentinia) but the only organic one in contrast with other ecological ones. Because the demand of organic fruits in Argentinia is so low the majority of Luis’ apples are delivered to Europe and the USA.
In Argentinia ecological fruits are [...]
Notes for the argentinian apple article
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-Luis M.´s organic apples are delivered to the USA and to Europe
-None of them are selled in Argentinia
èDemand of organic fruits in Argentinia is very low
- ecological fruits are favored
-Luis apples take part of a 13.000 km journey
-per apple 163 gramm CO2
-are his apples climate killers?-Luis gives 200 jobs on hin plantation
èworkers earn 20 per [...]
The Co2-logo for products and food
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-some aspects concerning globalisation, referring to food are very questionable
-problem: on the one hand a lot of people living in the regions where the apples are being grown want to save the jobs in their region but on the other hand they buy foreign apples
-environmental problem: the CO2 ––emission is much bigger, when the apples [...]
