> [Image of Kenyan woman picking roses in a Kenyan greenhouse] > The work is grueling, with long shifts in steamy greenhouses, and laborers earn as little as $

> [Image of Kenyan woman picking roses in a Kenyan greenhouse] > The work is grueling, with long shifts in steamy greenhouses, and laborers earn as little as $70 a month, but it’s a steady paycheck in a country where those can be hard to come by. By comparison, that monthly wage of $70 is less than a day of minimum wage in the US. That's why it's more efficient to make a global energy-intensive cold chain logistics and air-freight network. (That and the price of carbon pollution isn't priced into the supply chain) That's the scale of globalization.