Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 3 of Menzie Chinn’s and Douglas Irwin’s superb 2025 textbook, International Economics:

Our food supply is globalized, too. We happily eat locally harvested fruits and vegetables when they are in season, but the rest of the year we enjoy asparagus from Peru, grapes from Chile, apples from New Zealand, and avocados from Mexico. We eat sushi wrapped in seaweed grown in China or South Korea. We top our salads, or stuff our pita sandwiches, with chickpeas grown in India or Australia. For dessert, we indulge in a little chocolate made from cocoa beans grown in Côte d’Ivoire or maybe Ecuador. Whatever your favorite meal or snack might be, these days it is likely that some of what is going into your mouth cam from a country far away.

DB: Reasonable people celebrate this reality, realizing – as they do – not only that globalization makes our food supply far more diverse than it would otherwise be, but also far more secure (given that, with globalization, our nutrition isn’t held hostage to the vagaries of our own country’s weather, or other, problems).