A BORDERLESS SOCIETY

A Borderless Society



Impact of A Borderless Society

Introduction

As a country which takes pride in providing options, we are likely to buy what we expect and what we want this market to make available to us. Food selections are no different. We plan a meal and seek out those items on our list. Or we select from what is available and plan a meal around those selections. We rarely think about where our choices originated. Some of our purchases may originate here in the United States, while others come from outside our borders. This can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. (Marks, 2007)

A significant advantage is that products grown and utilized within our borders help to stimulate our national economy. For example, milk produced from cows is collected at the farm and transported to the plant for pasteurization processing. This is commonly done in a specific geographic area since milk has a short shelf-life, commonly about two weeks. It is tested for antibiotics and then pumped into the plants holding tanks where it will be processed 24 to 72 hours of arrival. It is kept below 45 degrees from the time it enters the truck until it is processed. After processing, it is then packaged in cartons or plastic containers for shipment to the store in refrigerated trucks. Because milk should be kept refrigerated, shipping is not advisable over very long distances, such as other countries. (Milk Processing, 2007)

A disadvantage of a global market is that outside the borders of the United States, developing countries may develop crops that pertain to forward thinking technology, like sugar in Brazil in response to the demand for ethanol, lending themselves to a limited variety of crops. (Dean, 2007) This tends to materialize in ways that undermine the potential growth of the underdeveloped country, leading to vast clearing of land for development of crop variety. This can contribute to a surplus of one or more crops leading to unstable prices in the international market.

Discussion

The two selected meals are breakfast and lunch, components of each meal would be:

Breakfast: French toast, milk with necessary items such as glass for milk, and dish, knife and fork for French toast.

Lunch: Pizza and including components same as mentioned above.

Origins

French toast: French toast is originated from France and is a common breakfast food throughout North America. Around 2600-3000 BC, the Egyptians learned to use the yeast for making bread. They also invented the first stove for the production of bread. The Greeks learned to bake bread by the Egyptians, Romans, thanks to the Greeks. The Romans perfected the process of grinding the grains, created a new furnace.

Milk: Human consumption of animal milk began about 11,000 years ago with the domestication of livestock during the so-called climatic optimum. The first animal to be domesticated was the cow, then the goat, about the same time, and finally the sheep, including 9000 and 8000 a.

Knives, fork, and dish: Plate is a part of crockery, and crockery is derived from ...