How the World Works - Salon.com

How the World Works - Salon.com: "It is one of the miracles of globalization that soybeans farmed in the American Midwest are cheaper for Chinese processing plants than soybeans grown in China."

After my school's simulation last year where we focused on genetically modified foods, I became convinced that untested genetically modified crops still in the experimental phase would destroy at least one of the major world crops in the next decade. I should look for the sources and link, but there were interesting articles about how experimental crops were being sold on the black market in China to be spread through the world food supply.

This article is interesting in pointing out that the Chinese government may not care if its people are eating GMOs, but it wants to keep its own agriculture non-GMO so that they can continue selling to Europe and Japan. It's an interesting entry with a lot of links for those wanting to learn more.

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On a separate note, I'm being tortured by packing. I'm drowning in paper clutter and have just been lugging around boxes of binders...

But the weather here has been monstrous, so I'm ready to move back to sf. It's been 3 days of reunion activities here at Princeton, and they closed off the evening with fireworks which I caught when returning from an errand run to Staples to buy packing tape and 14x14 boxes.