first-world food chain

PLoS Biology: The Bittersweet Sounds of the Modern Food Chain

It is, after all, composed of the joyful sounds of more than 3,000 people crunching on locally grown, organic apples. But as we listen to the orchestrated munching, we read that although the United Kingdom grows more than 2,000 apple varieties, the nation's supermarkets are packed instead with apples imported—at huge environmental cost—from thousands of miles away.

I love PLoS Biology (Public Library of Science), but haven't read it before. I'm learning to read some of the articles, but these are writings that take the cake.