The Atlantic explains
how close New York City is to a food crisis, if supplies from outside the city are disrupted by natural or manmade events: "
New Yorkers rely chiefly on food from across the country, or the other
side of the world. And to complicate matters, in recent decades the big
companies that run these systems... keep
much smaller inventories than in years past, sized to
meet immediate demand under stable conditions—a strategy known as
"just-in-time."
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