Bad Environmentalist. Bad.

In addition to sugar-baby mini watermelons, my list of Acceptable Fruit has expanded to include the minneola tangelo, also known as a "honeybell." Super sweet and almost all juice, I like them approximately 300% more than oranges. But their availability is limited, with a season that seems to correspond with that of the crates of clementines my dad likes to get at Christmas.

On my way into Arbor Farms Market, a local purveyor of organic groceries, I saw a huge pyramid of minneolas glowing on a table outside next to the corn and tomatoes. "How do they have minneolas?" I thought. They were expensive, over a dollar a piece, but I got two.

It wasn't until I got home that I saw the label, which explains how Arbor Farms has minneolas:

The four-digit code also indicates that this fruit isn't organic. Organic would kind of be a moot point after flying it 9441 miles*, wouldn't it?

I feel badly that a ton of jet fuel was burned to bring me a tangelo in Michigan in August. Yet, it never before occurred to me to feel badly about the fuel burned to bring me a bottle of Australian shiraz.

Why? Why not?

I'll need to have another glass and get back to you on that.

* From Indo.com: Distance between Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States and Sydney, Australia, as the crow flies: 9441 miles (15193 km) (8204 nautical miles)

Initial heading from Ann Arbor to Sydney:
west (262.4 degrees)
Initial heading from Sydney to Ann Arbor:
east-northeast (62.2 degrees)