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These are my recommendations for revising the article: Ethical eating.

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  • I decided that the subsection "food availability" would better fit the information I have gathered, rather than "distribution of wealth"
  • Deleted and rewrote the intro to this article
  • Edited the second (and only other) sentence of this subsection
  • Added more sentences to further the thoughts on why and if food availability has been as issue due to increasing exports
  • Added my 3 citations (1, Van den Broeck) (3, Jongwanich) (4, Porkka)

Food availability[edit]

Since the early 2000s, the rate at which horticultural exports are taking place have grown exponentially in developing countries in Latin-America, Africa, and Asia. Horticultural exports include items like fruits and vegetables which are valued as high exports.[1] Horticultural exports aren't the only thing increasing, so are processed food exports.[2] Beginning in 1980, there has been a large increase in developing countries of processed exports that has gone on to shift the world's agricultural trade.[3] These new increasing exports from developing countries brought on concerns of food availability in these areas because they are producing and then selling much of their product. However research has shown that this is not the case. Based on a healthy and sustainable diet of at least 2500 (or more) calories, "the percentage of population living in countries with sufficient food supply has almost doubled." Even in countries like Brazil and Mexico of Latin America, the food supply has surplused to a diet that could sustain 3000 calories a day.[4]

  1. ^ Van den Broeck, Goedele; Maertens, Miet (2016-09-01). "Horticultural exports and food security in developing countries". Global Food Security. 10: 11–20. doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2016.07.007. ISSN 2211-9124.
  2. ^ Kearney, John (2010-09-27). "Food consumption trends and drivers". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 365 (1554): 2793–2807. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0149. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 2935122. PMID 20713385.
  3. ^ Jongwanich, Juthathip (2009-10-01). "The impact of food safety standards on processed food exports from developing countries". Food Policy. 34 (5): 447–457. doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2009.05.004. ISSN 0306-9192.
  4. ^ Porkka, Miina; Kummu, Matti; Siebert, Stefan; Varis, Olli (2013-12-18). "From Food Insufficiency towards Trade Dependency: A Historical Analysis of Global Food Availability". PLOS ONE. 8 (12): e82714. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082714. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3867377. PMID 24367545.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link) CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)