When we need to buy groceries we simply go to the store and buy them. How many of us wonder where the food came from and how it got to us?
Most of our food is moved across great distances—and through many different forms of transit—before it reaches our plates.
We see the endless lines of trucks. Where do they come from and where are they going?
The map doesn’t make a whole lot of sense unless you read the entire article.
Here’s a snippet:
For example, the map shows how a shipment of corn starts at a farm in Illinois, travels to a grain elevator in Iowa before heading to a feedlot in Kansas, and then travels in animal products being sent to grocery stores in Chicago.
But you will never guess where the biggest hub of food movement is. (And I’m not going to tell you.)
I recommend you read the article. It will give you an entirely new perspective the next time you go shopping for groceries.
From The first map of America’s food supply chain is mind-boggling
