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Before you even start thinking about the green costs of imported food, ask yourself why you would want not-quite-fresh meat after it’s flown halfway across the country (and lost nutrients along the way). Not only is airfare becoming more costly, but the food eats up more energy because it has to be kept refrigerated, even though preservatives have already been used, and its packaging materials can’t always be recycled. Besides, these behemoth industrial farms are huge polluters of air and water, unlike the local farmers less than 100 miles away from you. (Look here to find them.) The factories can also pollute the food they produce, if you remember when an E coli outbreak in California in 2006 managed to spread to 26 other states. Can we really blame South Korea?
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