7 Advantages of the Global Cold Chain

Nowadays, we routinely eat foods that originated in different countries. For example, you may have seen Vietnamese dragon fruit, Chilean grapes, and Mexican berries in your local supermarket. Although we enjoy eating these exotic foods, we may not even realize that they weren't grown locally. The truth is that if you were to limit yourself to locally grown foods, you might not have as much variety as you now do. So there are many advantages to the global cold chain.
Global Cold Chain

  1. Safety: The global food chain keeps food safe while it's being transported from one country to another, thus ensuring that the food that reaches your supermarket is of good quality.
  2. Variety and Health: The global food chain provides the consumer with more variety. Not only is this pleasing to the palate, but it's also good for health because you end up consuming food with more vitamins and minerals.
  3. Prevent Wastage: Sometimes, one region might produce a lot more of a certain type of food than they strictly need. Given that the earth's resources are becoming less, it makes sense to prevent wastage of food by selling it in a different country.
  4. Convenience: Can you imagine how inconvenient it would be if you had to travel to different countries to sample their cuisine? The global food chain increases our levels of convenience in day-to-day life.
  5. Pricing: It's possible to set up a hothouse in the middle of New York and grow Chilean grapes there, but it's also very expensive. It's cheaper for the consumer to just eat imported grapes that were transported via the global cold chain.
  6. Creating Jobs: By eating foods grown in different countries, we're also creating jobs for farmers and workers working in those countries. So everyone benefits from the global food chain.
  7. Expanding the Mind: Eating exotic foods is just a step away from understanding a different language and culture. So trying different foods can help expand your mind. And the global food chain helps you to do this.

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