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Ethical Eating: Our Endangered Food Supply Chain

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In this day and age we try and consider all of the certifications and seals on the packages of the food we buy. Is it organic? Fair Trade? Wild harvested? Rainforest friendly? Local? What does this all mean anyway? Who is actually growing my food and who is profiting when I buy it?

Most people do not want to contribute to destroying our planet’s ecosystems, nor do people want to support child slave labor in the Ivory Coast when eating their favorite chocolate bar. Yet, somehow, these atrocities are taking place with many, many of the products we consume everyday. Now the question is... Is it possible for our food to be both affordable and not destroy the planet?

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