[Dottore]

[QUOTE=lane912;5232586 soon, ten years or so energy prices are predicted to be high enough to make this type of marketing cost prohibitive; it will cost too much to grow or make a product on one side of the earth to be consumed on the other side. everything will be produced for local markets or cost more.[/QUOTE]

And that is actually the way it should be.

Some people predicted long ago that prohibitive fuel costs would eventually bring "Big Food" to its knees. And then what happens to your stable food supply?

What happens when the cost of shipping soybeans and corn across the country to feed lots, and the cost of shipping the livestock to slaughterhouses, and distributing the finished product across the US—just becomes too expensive.

And what about those Peruvian strawberries and that New Zealand lamb? How fecking stupid is that? Why would anyone buy a lamb from New Zealand—unless of course they live in New Zealand?