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英语翻译An environmental group called the Food Commission is unh

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英语翻译
An environmental group called the Food Commission is unhappy and disappointed because of the sale of bottled water form Japan.The water is angrily argues in public,has traveled 10,000“food miles”before it reaches Western customers.“transporting water halfway across the world is surely the extremely stupid use of fuel when there is plenty of water in the OK.”It is also worried that we are wasting our fuel by buying praums(对虾)from Indonesia(7,000 food miles) and carrots from South Africa(5,900 food miles).
Counting the number of miles traveled done by a product is a strange way of trying to tell the true situation of the environmental damage done by an industry.Most food is transported around the world on container ships that are extremely energy efficient(高能效的).It should be noted that a ton of butter transported 25 miles in a truck product transported hundreds of miles by sea.Besides ,the idea of “of miles”ignores the amount of fuel used in the production.It is possible to cut down your food miles by buying tomatoes grown in Britain rather than those grown in Ghana; the difference is that the British one will have been raised in heated greenhouses and the Ghanaian ones in the open sun.
What the idea of“food miles”does provide,however,is the chance to cut out Third World Countries from First World food markers.The number of miles traveled by our food should,as I see it,be regarded as a sign of the success of the global(全球的)trade system,not a sign of damage to the environment.
一家名叫“食品委员会”的环保组织对日本出口瓶装水表示了不满与失望.公众对该事件反应激烈,因为这些瓶装水在销售给西方顾客之前,跨越了1万“食品英里”.“在当地水供应没有问题的情况下,千里迢迢从国外运输瓶装水是极其愚蠢的做法,耗费了大量的燃料.”同时,从印度尼西亚(7000食品英里外)进口对虾,从南非(5900食品英里)进口胡萝卜也是对燃料的极大浪费,引起了公众的担忧.
通过计算运输食品来衡量工业对环境的破坏程度是一种奇怪的手段.大多数的食品都是通过高能效的船舶进行运输的.值得一提的是,一吨黄油通过卡车运输25英里耗费的能源,用船舶可以跨越几百英里.除此之外,“食品英里数”的概念忽略了货物生产过程中消耗的燃料.如果不从加纳,而是从英国进口番茄确实可以降低食品英里数,但区别在于,英国需要在恒温的温室中种植番茄,而加纳只需利用自然阳光.
“食品英里数”这个概念其实是让第三世界国家失去第一世界国家的粮食市场.在我看来,食品运输的英里数应该被看做是全球贸易系统的成功,而不是环境遭到破坏的罪证.