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

It is a common appearance that
food
from the
difference
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farm
and really for away to consumers. It is because
people
think that
food
from designated locations
are
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better than local
food
. But
this
is a negative trend.
People
prefer the
food
travels
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thousands of miles from the
farm
is that they think imported
food
is more healthy and
higher
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quality.
For example
,
people
who like beef, chicken, lamb from the
farm
. They think
this
is organic and healthy. Because these animals have
the
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good place to
growing
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. There are many advertisements
show
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the natural
farm
from foreign. But
people
forgot these meant are from a so far away place.
The quality
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assurance can’t ensure. The
second
reason is that consumers want to try different
food
from the product
farm
. Because of the local
farm
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don’t have these products or it
taste
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not good.
Such
as some Chinese
people
often choose
the
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strawberry from DongBei in China,
where
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have the highest quality strawberries in China. Consumers like pineapple, mango from Thailand. Fish from Japan and red wine from France.
However
, locally produced
food
is always fresher.
Food
travels thousands of miles
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from
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form
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from
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the
farm
need to spend more money to keep it fresh. Meanwhile, it will
requires
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a lot of fossil fuel to get it to the market and
merchant
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merchants
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maybe add some
antioxidant
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to make it don’t be spoilage. So maybe local
food
is more environmentally
favorable
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. To summarize, maybe the local
food
better
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than some
food
from the far away
farm
. So it is
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a
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bad trend for
people
’s
healthy
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health
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.
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  • import/export
  • agricultural technology
  • logistics systems
  • consumer preferences
  • exotic foods
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