Today food travels thousands of miles from the farm to the consumers. Why? Is it a positive or negative trend?

It is true that customers are able to buy

food

produced far away from their home country. There are several reasons why imported

food

has become increasingly accessible.

Firstly

, the essential reason is globalization, resulting in

the

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open trade environment, so that a variety of

food

are permitted to enter the foreign market.

Therefore

, aiming at broadening

customer

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base,

food

producers are willing to sell their products abroad.

Secondly

, owing to the advancement of

transportation

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industry,

such

as air transport,

food

can be delivered in an efficient way, preventing fresh

food

from being spoiled even though transported to places thousands of

kilometers

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away.

The trend of importing foreign

food

has both benefits and shortcomings. On one hand,

this

trend has

positive

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effect on enriching people_s diet. Consumers have access to different kinds of non-local

food

, especially those unable to grow domestically. Cultivated in

certain

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region where has most suitable climate and soil, some imported

food

contains the highest value of nutrition, contributing to

healthy

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diet.

On the other hand

, some negative impacts on local farmers result from numerous imported

food

. Customers tend to purchase foreign

food

because they regard that some non-local

farm

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farms

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can produce

food

of higher quality.

As a result

, local farmers, who produce the same goods, lose a certain number of customers. Some of them are forced to compete with foreign producers by reducing

price

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, leading to

the

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decrease in profit.

To sum up, it is common that

food

can travel and be sold abroad. Generally,

although

this

phenomenon has positive and negative effects, the merits of it outweigh the disadvantages,

that is

, consumers have

diverse

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choice

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in

food

.

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