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Latest from Food Politics: Weekend playing: food trade around the world

Someone sent me this new interactive site. from Our World in Data: How does food get traded around the world?   It’s fun and useful. Scroll down the page until you come to the impossibly complicated chart on global maize trade in 2023.   Ignore it. ...
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By Marion Nestle

Weekend playing: food trade around the world

Someone sent me this new interactive site. from Our World in Data: How does food get traded around the world? 

It’s fun and useful.

Scroll down the page until you come to the impossibly complicated chart on global maize trade in 2023.  Ignore it.

Above it are places where you can type in the product you want to look at, and the country that imports or exports it.

I started by  switching the country to the United States.

 

 

Then I switched to yoghurt:

See what I mean?  Enjoy!

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Latest from Food Politics: Weekend playing: food trade around the world

Someone sent me this new interactive site. from Our World in Data: How does food get traded around the world?   It’s fun and useful. Scrol...