My Breakfast's Long Journey

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My Breakfast's Long Journey before Getting to my Plate Although it is considered to be my second year here in Canada, everything is still considered foreign to me even food, with its entire different brands from which we were used to After reading The 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon the fact about where did our food actually come from kept coming into my mind. While thinking about what should I choose to write about for this assignment and my mom calling out for me to have breakfast ,that is when I decided that my breakfast will be the center of my research. I grabbed a jar of jam from my kitchen shelf, a cream cheese can, and of course white pita bread and started my research after I was done with my breakfast. I start with the strawberry jam jar, simply because it was what I have been having for breakfast for a while now, and started observing it. The first thing that got my attention was this very familiar flag drawn near the bottom of the jar with a caption "a fine product from Egypt" beside it. I have been having this strawberry jam with either peanut butter or cream as breakfast these last few weeks without even noticing that it actually came from where I came from, since there are not that many things you see that will actually be produced in Egypt. Continuing reading off the label I found that it was imported by Montréal, Quebec while my mom bought it from Northland Walmart .Meaning that this jar of jam actually crossed the North Atlantic Ocean traveling a distance of 8449.94 kilometers from Egypt to Montréal, Quebec. It then traveled from Montréal, Quebec to Calgary, Alberta a distance of 3933 kilometers. It took a total distance of 12,382.94 kilometers then ended up on a Walmart shelf at northwest Calgary. I

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