We often forget how much work goes into the food we eat.

Going to the grocery store, it can be easy to let the reality of what we’re looking at pass us by. However, if you think for a little while, the breadth of goods that we can get no matter where we live is pretty astonishing. A guy in Wyoming can go to the grocery store and get oranges, bananas, pineapples — a pretty crazy fact given that these foods were a status symbol up until relatively recently.

Then again, seeing how much work actually goes into harvesting them, maybe they *should* still be a status symbol — or maybe we should be paying more than just a few bucks per bunch.

For example, in Burundi, people travel at speeds of 45 mph downhill carrying about 450 pounds of bananas, all so that they can be sold. Oh yeah, they also can’t use their brakes, as doing so with such weight and speed would shred their tires.

Here’s what that process looks like:

going downhill with that speed and weight without brakes is crazy.
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