Agriculture Reference
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livestock. Each controversy can be approached in a variety
of ways. We as authors, choose to take on the issues as they
are fought in developed nations, and mostly the United
States, not because they are necessarily more important,
but because they are what we are most familiar with. Much
of the developing world just wants to feed its people and
raise enough cash crops to help their economies grow out
of subsistence and into the affluent world. The needy people
of the developing world are likely puzzled as to why some
Americans want to pay higher food prices. For some in the
United States, western Europe, and a few other locations
like Australia, food is not just the fuel of lifeā€”it is part of
their identity. The foods they buy at the market and the res-
taurants they patronize signal their beliefs and values. We
all wish to contribute to society in some fashion, and some
choose food as their altruistic outlet. The affluent world has
the luxury to pay more attention to the environment and
animal welfare, and as the Third World follows, it may do
the same. This means that the agricultural controversies we
discuss are relevant to both the developed world today and
the developing world tomorrow.
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