The Getty is hardly the only American institution to be accused of buying art of dubious origin.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the importance of geographic origin and grazing system for Norwegian and Italian consumers' probability of buying lamb meat.
If you don't know the origin of these products, buying them while on vacation, especially in other countries, can encourage continued poaching.
Gary Barnett, president of Extell Development Company, said the buyer, who declined to be named or to disclose his country of origin, bought the 10,923-square-foot penthouse on the 89th and 90th floors of One57, the building currently under construction at 157 West 57th Street.
It is possible that immigrants do not bring all their belongings from their countries of origin but buy new goods after moving to Spain, accumulating more over time.
In the last four years in Montville, the investors, most of them of Chinese origin, have bought 44 homes for $6.6 million across Route 32 from the casino, town records show.
Sacks of cement and piles of gravel, Turkish in origin and bought legally in Egypt, are smuggled through the hundreds of tunnels in double shifts, day and night, totaling some 3,000 tons a day.
It can vary wildly depending on the brand and country of origin (you can buy versions from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, etc).
But Pollan's repeated use of this term grows irritating as it becomes clear that what consumers demand from corporations are not semifictional "stories" but factual accounts of the origin of the foods they buy and the paths they take to supermarket shelves.
The target audience is everyone from activists to wildlife biologists to companies interested in the origin of the products they buy from forested areas.
