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WhatI found to be most intriguing from the articles we read for Tuesday was theillogical manner in which food gets transported around the world. Why wouldconsumers as well as executives in Great Britain’s food industry feel the needto import 14,000 tons of chocolate covered waffles per year when they alreadyexport roughly the same amount of the same product? What is it about our inherent human nature that drives us to allay any and all fears regarding the negative consequences of our actions on the environment? What made consumers decidethat chocolate covered waffles from Venezuela were any different or better inquality than those from Newfoundland? Why waste all those fossil fuel resourceson the exportation of a product that your native country already produces?Revkin’s “globalizing world economy” ideology that “resources inevitably willflow to cheaper labor for processing into goods” must be at play in thisBritish waffle debacle. Surely any sensible human being would agree that theidea of flying shrimp caught in Scotland to China for shelling and then back toEurope for sale is completely nonsensical in a present day environmentallandscape of global heating, reduction of dependence on fossil fuel energy andthe mass production of “suburban subdivisions” where farms once were. Why is human nature so intrinsically linked to all arguments labelled as safe, cheap and convenient?