blows ones mind doesn't it.....
Why don't we make processing plants where it is harvested? Because its not cost effective.
The US does the same thing. We scrap metal here, it goes to China to be processed, we buy the metal back for construction.
On a tangent....in CA we have a bad drought. I say: why don't we buy water from wetter states cause it all drains into the ocean anyways.
"Because its not cost effective".
me: How much money in crop losses and crop inefficiencies do we lose in this state. How much money do we lose importing fruit that we would normally grow here?
"that's not the same because its not an instant loss".
We buy oil and electricity from out of state sources. We need someone to put the calculator down and start thinking forward.