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PBS Food: Potatoes

PBS Food: Potatoes | Human Interest | Scoop.it

"Follow America's favorite vegetable from field to factory — to see how potatoes grow and how they're turned into chips."

Ari Galant's curator insight, August 25, 2016 9:53 PM
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Alex Smiga's curator insight, August 30, 2016 2:56 PM
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Sophie Wilson's curator insight, August 31, 2016 10:33 AM
This video shows the process of potatoes moving from farm to factory in America and how they are turned into chips. It shows how the potatoes are planted, grown and turned into chips. 
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China’s hungry cattle feasting on alfalfa grown on Utah farm

China’s hungry cattle feasting on alfalfa grown on Utah farm | Human Interest | Scoop.it
China has long depended on the U.S. breadbasket, importing up to $26 billion in U.S. agricultural products yearly. But increasingly, Chinese investors aren’t just buying from farms abroad. They’re buying the farms.
MsPerry's curator insight, August 12, 2014 7:06 PM

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Jessica Martel's curator insight, September 5, 2018 3:31 PM
"While China still ranks far behind the United States in foreign agricultural investments, its interest in farms abroad has prompted concerns about putting too much of America’s food supply in foreign hands."
Exporting goods is great for the US economy. We make money off of the goods that other countries are not able to get locally. What I don't understand is why would we literally sell our ability to export and better our economy? 
Sure, the Chinese owners of the farms that are on american soil will have to pay taxes on their land; in my eyes this is the only profit that america is able to make off of the farm.This is crazy to me and doesn't make sense. China already imports so many things to the US that we pay them for. NOW we are giving them our food and money.After the initial buy of the land.... its as good as dead to america. What next? Do we pay China for the goods they produced on our land. This is a great example of both good and bad globalization. This benefits China immensely they get to use other land  they don't have access too.The US looses land,food and money.