How far has your food travelled?

In regards to the carbon footprint and the miles traveled by such produce, it is very much down to what is known as Logistics.

Poland is an importer of British products. Therefore, British registered vehicles have to travel across Europe with those products. To keep the costs of those journeys down they reload with Polish exports for delivery to Britain making the whole round trip cost effective to the Haulier and his customers.

The above then places those products on British Supermarket shelves at the cheapest possible price to the advantage of us all.

Britain has never been able to feed it's population from it's own agriculture, therefore approximately 40% of this nations food comes from European growers on trucks crossing the English Channel.

Something well worth thinking about if there is to be disruption to those vehicles crossing the channel due to brexit

Some products from New Zealand / Australia have a smaller carbon footprint than from Europe as they are shipped rather than flown or driven to the UK.