{"id":6351,"date":"2014-06-12T08:42:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2019-08-02T09:37:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:37:30","slug":"forty-maps-food-america-vox-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/06\/12\/forty-maps-food-america-vox-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty maps on food in America – from Vox.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Ezra Klein and Susannah Locke<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future of the nations will depend on the manner of how they feed themselves, wrote the French epicurean Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1826. Almost 200 years later, how nations feed themselves has gotten a lot more complicated. That\u2019s particularly true in the US, where food insecurity coexists with an obesity crisis, where fast food is everywhere and farmer\u2019s markets are spreading, where foodies have never had more power and McDonald\u2019s has never had more locations, and where the possibility of a barbecue-based civil war is always near. So here are 40 maps, charts, and graphs <\/a>that show where our food comes from and how we eat it, with some drinking thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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