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> excess food in San Francisco needs to be sent to people in Bangladesh. Most of that food in San Francisco is coming from other countries to start. The U.S. i
by ryanmercer 8y ago
> excess food in San Francisco needs to be sent to people in Bangladesh.
Most of that food in San Francisco is coming from other countries to start. The U.S. imports 50 percent of fresh fruits, 20 percent of fresh vegetables and 80 percent of seafood.
We EXPORTED 133 billion dollars of food in 2017, the bulk of that being soybeans, beef and poultry.
Neither of these practices are sustainable and the US isn't alone in this practice. People don't want a can of corn that was grown locally in the past year or two, they want a fresh cob grown in the past few weeks which has to be shipped from another hemisphere. They don't want frozen fruit, they want to go to the grocery and pick over visually appealing fresh fruit that just finished its trip from China to their local retailer in Bumsville, Idaho.
Did you know that in the U.S. alone the cattle we raise eat enough grain to feed a BILLION people? The average cow will eat EIGHTEEN TONS of feed per year. Don't get me wrong, I love a hamburger or some beef sausage on my pizza but...