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their future food supply would turn out to be (let alone that one of their children would marry a foreigner and move to Canada).
    As the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker observes in The Better Angels of Our Nature , we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species’ existence. This blessed state of affairs, though, was a long time coming and was only made possible through the worldwide exchange of products, resources, ideas, and culture. Despite our current economic woes, we have almost vanquished famine. Most of us live longer, healthier, safer, and more enjoyable lives than previous generations. It seems incumbent upon us to put forward some constructive proposals to improve the global food supply chain rather than turn back the clock to some imagined era of pastoral bliss that most people escaped from when given the opportunity. Growing more and better quality food, and doing so ever more efficiently, healthily, safely, and sustainably is what we should aim for.
    Food cosmopolitanism is in everybody’s and the planet’s best interest. It is my hope that “Buy Local” will soon be replaced by the more desirable slogan, “Buy Global—The Planet Is Our Garden!”
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    â€” Hiroko Shimizu

INDEX

    Accountability
    Accum, Friedrich Christian
    Activists (local food)
    assumption made by
    environmental misconceptions and
    nineteenth century
    Adams, Edward E.
    Additives
    Adulterations (food)
    Aerial bombing
    Affordability
    Africa
    See also specific places
    Agri-business
    changing human body and
    Agricultural economists
    Agricultural production
    urban land and
    value per worker
    See also Production (food)
    Agricultural resilience
    Agricultural service cooperatives
    Agriculture
    cities and productivity of high-yield
    history of
    invention of
    modern
    Native American contributions to
    no-till
    profitability of
    supplies
    See also Community-supported agriculture; Subsistence agriculture
    Ahlgrimm, Franz
    Air freight
    Alcohol(table)
    Alcott, Bronson
    Allied Blockade
    Altman, Lynda
    Alwang, Jeffrey
    American Dutch Utopia
    American Farmland Trust
    Animal
    by-products(fig.)
    manure
    See also Livestock
    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kingsolver)
    Animal production
    in proximity to city

    railway and
    semen and embryos
    See also specific products
    Annals of Rural Bengal (Hunter)
    Apples
    grades
    pesticides
    production
    Aristotle
    Arthashastra (treatise)
    Arthurdale, West Virginia
    Athens
    Autarky
    food security and
    Smith, A., on
    Avery, Dennis

    Backward integration
    Bailey, Ronald
    Bananas
    Gros Michel
    Barber, Andrew
    Bastiat, Frédéric
    Battle for Grain
    Baudeau, Nicolas
    Bauerlein, Monika
    Bell, Beverly
    Bengal, India
    The Better Angels of Our Nature (Pinker)
    Biodiversity
    Biosphere 2 project
    Biotechnology
    Bittman, Mark
    Black markets
    Blemishes
    Bloom, Leah
    Blumenthal, Gary
    Boin, Caroline
    Book of Genesis
    Book of Revelation
    Born, Branden
    Boudreaux, Donald
    Bourdain, Anthony
    Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
    Brands (food)
    Brandt, Karl
    Bread(table)
    British Columbia
    Broken Window Fallacy
    Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education
    Brown, Sherrod
    BSE. See Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
    Budiansky, Stephen
    Bunker fuel
    Burke, Edmund
    Butchers
    Butchers’ National Protective Association in Saint Louis
    Butter(table)
    Buy local campaigns

    CAFO. See Concentrated animal feeding operations
    Cahokia Mounds
    California strawberries
    Calories
    cheap
    intake of
    Campylobacter jejuni
    Canada
    Cancer
    Cane sugar
    Cantaloupes

    CAP. See Common Agricultural Policy
    Carson, Rachel
    Cato the Elder
    Chambliss, Saxby
    Cheese(table)
    Chefs, elite status of professional
    Chicago meat-packing district
    China
    economic growth
    Han
    Churchill, Winston
    City
    agricultural productivity
    in developing counties
    development and economic growth
    edge
    food production in proximity to
    inner
    population percent living in
    surface area of
    trade and green
    See also