The mango and almond outbreaks had a larger lesson; we no longer cat only fruits and vegetables in season and that are grown locally, as we once did. Instead, we demand our strawberries, peaches, mangoes, and lettuce year-round. As a result, we are depending more
and more on imports. Eating food grown elsewhere in the world means depending on the soil, water, and sanitary conditions in those places, and on the way their workers farm, harvest, process, and transport the products