In search of cheap food

Prices for cereal, cookies and hundreds of other items in your grocery store depend increasingly on an oil harvested half a world away. By MATT McKINNEY, Star Tribune November 30, 2008 ORO PROVINCE, PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Ezekiel Asimba’s 25-acre farm lies deep within a tropical rainforest, within view of an active volcano, but the palm oil that he and other growers produce will leave this remote island on cargo ships owned by Minnetonka-based Cargill Inc., destined for grocery store shelves aro