Wheat gluten from Russia, vitamin D3 from China, and guar gum from India can all be found in a loaf of Sara Lee's bread, reports The New York Times.
The article and this excellent chart show how food companies "scour the globe for more exotic — or the cheapest — ingredients to compete in a more global marketplace, not unlike automakers shipping in parts from all over."
The global market brings us new flavors and new ingredients, but -- as was seen in the pet food scare -- also expose food to more contamination risks.
The Ethicurean rounds-up the weekend's food news and concludes: "We’re all just lab rats in the maze of the global food chain." After reading this article, we ran to the farmer's market, ready to eat local, local, local.
