food, technology (+)
I love how modern technology and millennia-old breeding techniques combine to allow me to buy *locally harvested* apples at the farmer's market year round.
These aren't imported from the opposite side of the world, they were transported less than 100 kilometers!
And I can buy them every week, for the whole year!
Sure, not always the cultivars, but I can always find one that I like!
Now... to breed cherries and strawberries like that...!
food, pol (-)
And while we're at it: How come that bananas, which don't grow locally AT ALL, are the cheapest fruit at the supermarket?
How little are the people doing the actual care and harvest paid, that even transporting them thousands of kilometers doesn't make them more expensive than locally grown fruit?
food, pol (-)
@Tobi I think there's a causation - bananas are popular because they were the only food that could survive the distance (ripening times post-harvest ect) and now they still have those attributes but they make them cheap rather than possible?