“Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn’t spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. We went down that path once, and it brought us to ruin.”

— Paolo Bacigalupi , book The Windup Girl

Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 93

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