Conscious Consuminghad a great post recently that talks about where our food comes from.
"Coffee, bananas, and pineapples are back-breaking crops. Coffee berries don't ripen all at once, so each berry has to be picked by hand when it's ready. Since bananas and pineapples are so easily bruised, each fruit has to be carefully grown, picked, and packaged by hand. This labor-intensive work means lots of jobs, but jobs where the worker is bent over, in the sun, for twelve hours each day."
Thinking about the high cost of *making* a living in other parts of the world is always enough to make my own problems in life look like a cakewalk.
Read more here:Conscious Consuming: Where does your food come from?