Need help with my writing homework on A Globalized Version of Food. Write a 1500 word paper answering;

Need help with my writing homework on A Globalized Version of Food. Write a 1500 word paper answering; This brief analysis will attempt to capture the extent to which a normal person relies on the global food network for just two of his meals. Additionally, some of the benefits, risks, and advantages of our current system will be discussed and analyzed. As a part of this analysis, I will examine the individual items of food I consumed during two meals as a vehicle towards understanding and explaining the global nature of food supply.

My breakfast consisted of an apple, a bagel with cream cheese, and a glass of orange juice from concentrate. I purchased both of these items at my local grocery store. The apple came from Pennsylvania, the bagel was baked in Connecticut, the cream cheese was cultured and processed in Wisconsin, and the orange juice from concentrate was processed in Florida. In effect, not a single item of my morning breakfast was grown, baked, or processed locally. With respect to the processing that was necessary for each of the aforementioned products, the complexities of our global market become even clearer. With the apple, little processing was required. however, it was necessary to ship it several hundreds of miles to its final point of sale. The bagel originated from a bakery in Connecticut. however, the bagel itself has around 20 different ingredients that could have easily originated from any point in the world. A study entitled “Coming into the Foodshed” found the following concerning average distance that a single item of food travels: “Food in the United States travels an average of 1300 miles and changes hands half a dozen times before it is consumed.