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A Map Of Where Your Food Originated May Surprise You
A new study reveals the full extent of globalization in our food supply. More than two-thirds of the crops that underpin national diets originally came from somewhere else — often far away.
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I did not realize so much came from China.
Or that they are worried that big multi-national countries will take the material and patent it for themselves.
No nuts?
I found walnuts, macadamia nuts, groundnuts, sheanuts, kola nuts, chestnuts, almonds, and areca nuts.
On more carefully looking, in the higher res image, I can see almonds, groundnuts and hazelnuts, but not the others.
Does this have backup? For example, if I want to see their proof for how grapes are native to North America (I believe that they are native to the Mediterranean and middle east), where would I look?