Today food travels thousands of miles from the farm to the consumers. Why is this? Is it a positive or negative trend?

It is not uncommon these days to have access to a

food

item that has originated in another continent.

This

is primarily because of the lack of the consuming

country

to produce it independently.

This

essay will argue why

this

is a negative development as its

availability

becomes a concern in case of any emergency.

Moreover

, when

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food

is not home-grown, the consumer is forced to pay extra for it because of the

cost

involved in its transportation.

To begin

with, a number of countries are not agrarian economies and

hence

, have to import crops. When confronted with unforeseen circumstances, the disruption in its supply chain affects the

availability

of

food

items that are prepared from them. To illustrate, during the corona pandemic, the Indian diaspora in Singapore was deprived of Indian dishes.

This

was attributed mainly to the inability of the

country

to import

food

crops from India as cargo carriers had come to a halt due to the imposition of lockdown.

Therefore

,

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staple

food

becomes a major concern in case of an emergency when it must be imported from elsewhere. In the same vein, the end-user, consuming a popular

food

item that needs to be imported, must pay extra to incur its travel

cost

. The

cost

of logistics gets added to its selling price when an item is brought over from a foreign land.

For instance

, Singapore incurs a heavy import duty when it brings in crops like rice and wheat from India.

This

cost

is eventually borne by the customers there.

Therefore

, catering to a particular diaspora with a certain dish can

cost

a fortune for a

country

that is

not a producer of the raw materials required for its production. To conclude, certain local dishes have a huge global appeal and are consumed outside of

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shores.

This

can be attributed to the inability of

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country

to produce it independently.

This

is a worrying trend as the

availability

of

such

cuisine can become a concern when confronted with an unprecedented situation.

Furthermore

, the end-user has to pay extra to consume it in order to recover the

cost

of its transportation.