¶ … Borderless Society on Food
As disparate regions of the globe become more and more intertwined through the expansion of global capital and the practical disintegration of international borders for massive companies, the food people eat is simultaneously delivered from every region of the globe so that seasons no longer dictate the availability of any given food. However, the ability to obtain any given food out of season brings with it environmental and ecological damages because the farming and transportation practices which make this global food market work are almost entirely unsustainable and detrimental to the continued health of the global food ecosystem. In order to better understand the nature of this borderless society and how it affects the food one eats on any given day, it is useful to trace the path a couple of meals have taken from farm to plate, because only by doing so does the ramifications of the global, borderless food trade become clear. By examining the ingredients of two of this author's recent meals, this essay will help to elucidate the benefits and drawbacks of a global food market.
The first meal to be discussed here was a lunch consisting of skinless chicken breast, a mixed salad, asparagus and spinach, a green apple, and iced tea. All of the ingredients for this meal, as well as the meal to be considered later, were purchased at Publix supermarket, an employee-owned supermarket. The chicken was made by Foster Farms, a company which touts its locally raised chickens but which sells them across the country, demonstrating the reality of the fact that "food sold in U.S. supermarkets averages some 1,500 miles from farm to plate" ("Local-Food Movement: The Lure of the 100-Mile Diet," 2011). The vegetables (asparagus and spinach) came from California, but the green apple arrived all the way from New Zealand and the iced tea was originally grown in Kenya. The second meal under consideration was a dinner consisting of fresh salmon, wild rice, squash medley, and a glass of Shiraz. The salmon came from Alaska while the squash and wild rice was grown in California, with the Shiraz traveling from Australia.
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