"To give an example of how ridiculous our global food distribution has become, California's Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture points to the saga of sugarcane.
Imagine you are sitting in a Hawaiian coffee shop pouring a packet of refined white sugar into your coffee mug. Would you know that the sugar you are about to drink was first processed in a plant across the street? But since the sugarcane was still in the pale brown raw stage, it was then shipped to the C&H (California and Hawaii) Refinery on the outskirts of San Francisco, turning it into snowy-white fine-grain sugar. Now it had to be packaged into little sealed paper packets for coffee shops, so the sugar then traveled across the U.S. to New York, where it was packaged and eventually distributed to restaurants around the nation, including the coffee shop in Hawaii. Ultimately, that package of sugar made a 10,000 mile round-trip processing journey before landing in your coffee mug."
一包砂糖. 十萬里路. 誰會想到?
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