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Transport
Buying, selling, shipping, sharing
Many of us don't grow our own food: we typically buy it from grocery stores or small markets. The food on the shelves of your local store may have traveled across an ocean to reach you -- or just across the road. Apples, for instance, are an important crop in New York and Washington State, but are also shipped globally from New Zealand and Chile.
All around the world, food is exchanged in may ways -- among family, friends and neighbors, in stores and markets, in restaurants, between governments and corporations. And whether we use bicycles or container ships, humans have been as creative in coming up with ways to trade and transport food as they have in growing, cooking and eating it. |