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Global Markets The two meals that will be analyzed in this paper are breakfast and lunch meals. The breakfast comprised of hot coffee with milk and sugar alongside hotcakes. The lunch meal has chicken pie, French fries and a cold coca-cola. The origin of the coffee beans that was used to make the coffee is Latin America, the milk is from the farms in Texas, the sugar used originated from Colombia and the flour from which the hotcakes were made originated from Japan. For the lunch, the chicken came from the local poultry farmers in Texas, the French fries were also from the Texas farms and the coca-cola is bottled locally.

The products were purchased from various outlets with the breakfast having made it from coffee sourced at Wal-Mart alongside the hotcakes and the lunch I bought the entire package from the McDonald fast food.

The chain that led to the delivery of the food that land on our tables is quite long and complex. The end consumer may not appreciate the entire process due to he lack of keen attention that leads to the final lunch or breakfast that they have. For instance in my case, considering the breakfast the Coffee that draws its origin from Latin America could have been from a farm that is more that 15 years old. The coffee farms are usually expansive and free of any forest cover for good growth; hence there is a possibility that some large forest was cleared to give way for the coffee plantation hence negatively affecting the ecosystem. The environment and the water sources must have also been affected since the pesticides and fertilizers used in the farm always find their way to other parts of the environment and into water sources when it rains. During the harvesting period, there must have been enlisting of child labor against the laws of justice and the laws of International Labor Organization. This is a presumption from the fact that there are expansive...

And the sugarcane to the factories to be processed as well as the wheat that was harvested in the farms and had to be transported to the factories to be processed and be ready to be used for baking the hotcakes. The transport system in this case and even the harvesting mechanisms of the wheat by the combined harvesters used a lot of fuel that was emitted to the atmosphere and polluted the environment a lot.
When it comes to the lunch, there were also a lot of variables that led to the lunch reaching on my table at the McDonald fast food. The chicken pie that was for lunch must have been made from hens that were not free range bred since they are usually bred for commercial purposes hence being confined to an enclosure in large numbers. The soft drink that was part of the lunch must have undergone a lot of chemical process in the laboratory which created employment to some people in the processing line. The drink was then dispatched towards the consumption centers one of them being McDonald where I had lunch. This meant environmental degradation through noise pollution as well as emission of gasses that are dangerous to the ozone layer. The effluence of the chemical processing firms must have also ended up in the rivers hence being a hazard to the aquatic life. The French fries origin which is the expansive farms that specialize in growing them for commercial purposes. This must have denied other members of the ecosystem like the cows grazing zones, consequently leading to them being confined…

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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2008). Benefits and challenges of global markets. Retrieved May 23, 2012 from http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1201183330593&lang=eng

Economy Watch, (2010). Global Economy, Advantages of Global Economy. Retrieved May 23, 2012 from http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/world-economic-indicators/global-economy/

International Labor Organization (2012). Child Labour in Latin America and the Caribbean Retrieved May 23, 2012 from http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_norm/@declaration/documents/publication/wcms_decl_fs_51_en.pdf
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