Living on the Fife Diet

Food miles have become a burning issue in the climate debate as campaigners call for people to eat more local food. What happened when a family tried to survive on food only from Fife?

Whether it’s avocados from Peru, green beans from Kenya or lamb from New Zealand, people are constantly being told that their dietary choices have an impact on carbon emissions.


In the US, the term “locavore” has been applied to people that eat locally-sourced food.

And in response to this, green activists in Canada conceived the “100-mile diet”, with volunteers trying only to eat food from within a hundred-mile radius of their home.

But another group of volunteers in Fife have adopted and adapted the idea. They’ve created the Fife Diet and are trying to live on a diet of food that is largely from within the area, shunning air-freight goods.

BBC