FUTURE LONDON: Food - You Are What You Eat

Flying 1kg of asparagus or strawberries from California to the UK uses 900 times more energy than the home-grown equivalent.

Cox apples can be sprayed up to 16 times with 36 different pesticides.

Britain throws away 40% of all food bought.

In the London borough of Tower Hamlets 30% of under 16 year olds are overweight, and 10% are obese.

In Britain we eat 7 kilos of food additives every year.

Dairy cows produce more milk by being inseminated with hormones, which often causes udder infections. Blood and pus from the infections, as well as antibiotics, often end up in the milk.

Products in a typical shopping basket will have travelled 241,000km to get to you. If the same produce was sourced locally, the food miles would be reduced by 80%.

The global food industry spends $20billion a year on making our food look prettier.

Some British fish are sent to China (where labour costs are much lower) for processing, then sent back to the UK to be sold.