And it means the people in Los Angeles who were eating their food, a lot of it shipped in from far away have a distant relationship with it.

这意味着曾自给自足的洛杉矶人,所吃的食物要从远处运来,所以人与食品间的关系被拉远了

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The distance to food has changed a lot because food has to come in from far greater distances than used to be the case, and that's changed our relationship with food a lot, into a distant rather than a close relationship.

现在人和食物之间的距离发生了很大改变,现在的食物来自比以前远得多的地方,这在很大程度上,我们和食物间的关系,被渐渐地拉远了

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