Often, consuming local produce uses more carbon. Transportation is often a minor contributor to food production's carbon footprint (http://www.cleanmetrics.com/

Often, consuming local produce uses more carbon. Transportation is often a minor contributor to food production's carbon footprint (http://www.cleanmetrics.com/pages/Ch9_0923.pdf http://www.cleanmetrics.com/pages/Ch9_0923.pdf). We tend to get our food from places which can efficiently produce it. Even when factoring in transportation, it can still use less overall carbon than consuming less efficiently grown local food.