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

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item that has originated in another continent.

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is primarily because of the lack of the consuming

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to produce it independently.

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essay will argue why

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is a negative development as its

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becomes a concern in case of any emergency.

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, when

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

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involved in its transportation.

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with, a number of countries are not agrarian economies and

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

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of

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

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was attributed mainly to the inability of the

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to import

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

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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

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

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. The

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

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

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is eventually borne by the customers there.

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, catering to a particular diaspora with a certain dish can

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a fortune for a

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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.

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can be attributed to the inability of

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to produce it independently.

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is a worrying trend as the

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of

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

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

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of its transportation.