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National Geographic Report on the Global Food Crisis: "The End of Plenty"

Ref - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/06/cheap-food/bourne-text

It is the simplest, the most natural of acts, akin to breathing and walking upright. We sit down at the dinner table, pick up a fork, and take a juicy bite, obliv­ious to the double helping of global ramifications on our plate. Our beef comes from Iowa, fed by Nebraska corn. Our grapes come from Chile, our bananas from Honduras, our olive oil from Sicily, our apple juice — not from Washington State but all the way from China. Modern society has relieved us of the burden of growing, harvesting, even preparing our daily bread, in exchange for the burden of paying for it. Only when prices rise do we notice. And the consequences of our inattention are profound