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 Stories About: ag policy AND agriculture AND Brazil AND China AND industrial ag AND United States AND Victual Reality AND Wal-Mart
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The Route of the Problem
Following U.S. consumerism through the fields of China and Brazil |
Tom Philpott |
12 Apr 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| In what surely counts as one of the greatest feats in the history of global trade, the United States has essentially outsourced its manufacturing base to China in little more than a decade. It all starts with shuttered factories. Photo: iStockphoto But in doing so, the U.S. has helped unleash new trends in global agriculture that threaten global climate stability and biodiversit ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Brazil, China, industrial ag, United States, Victual Reality, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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