A Hill of Beans

 --Jack and the Beanstalk, 

Walter Crane

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Just a small musing:

Ranger has been traveling amongst fields and fields of soybeans recently, and wondered why we must import soybeans for human consumption from China, that far-from environmentally-sound country.

Calling them edamame does not make them any safer. Why does such a ubiquitous U.S. production as soybeans have to travel around the world from a toxic place?