Nowadays, the extreme actively international food trade offer people a chance to enjoy wide range of options for their meals. From my point of view, potential drawbacks of this development outweigh the benefits
On the one hand, proponents often highlight the merit. The increasing trend of commercial exchange of food products could provide more job opportunities. Since food products can be exported to all over the world, it means that demand for variety of foods would significantly escalate. Therefore, in order to fulfill the excessive demand, those countries who highly depend on export would have to recruit more workers to boost and increase production. It is especially true for those countries that supply raw material foods such as wheat, corn, and soy. For example, as the biggest corn supplier, the United States, through support from government policy, it attracts millions of people engage in this industry.
However, people often neglect the serious consequence that this development could bring to countries and global climate. Firstly, this development could result in the fact that some countries over depending on imported food. Excessively depend on the food from other countries could lead to vulnerable market because their food prices would be easily affected by exporting countries’ condition. Moreover, transporting foods for long distance could jeopardize our planet. This process involves multiple transportations such as ship and truck. All of which contributed to carbon emission and carbon footprint, and eventually exacerbating global warming.
In conclusion, although international food trade may be beneficial through create job opportunities, it actually would jeopardize local economics and cause serious problem to our climate.