Wednesday, May 6, 2009

what produce was from the Netherlands? an interactive food game

The food and water watch may be a LITTLE anti-imported food (understatement- e.g."learn about the hidden dangers your imported produce might contain"), but they did make this interesting tool/game tracking imported foods in the average american's shopping cart.
You look through a grocery store and select the foods you would normally buy (canned, frozen, fresh)- like canned peaches, frozen spinach, and onions... and add them to your shopping cart. For each food you select, it gives you the odds that product was imported, percent increases of exports of that product from 1993-2007, and top exporters of that product to the U.S.
I "shopped" for 10 pieces of produce I would normally/feasibly buy in the store (apples, avacados, bell peppers, carrots, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, lemons, oranges, pears) and ended up with a 98.9% percent chance of buying imported food, an average of 47 lbs. of these imported foods my house buys annually (I'm not sure how they got that statistic), and 13 possible countries of origin (Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands[?? woah], New Zealand, South Africa, and Spain).

try it out!

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