Cheeseburger in Paradise

This is an interesting article about the impracticality or indeed impossibility of making cheeseburgers except in our industrialized, post-agrarian society. Getting summer-bearing tomatoes, spring-ripe lettuce, winter-slaughtered livestock, and cheese together in one place wouldn't be very easy in the US or Europe before the age of greenhouses, international shipping, and refrigeration.

I agree with the article's central point, though there is obviously a temperate-climate bias operating here. I say this because in a mountainous equatorial climate like Colombia's, you can get wheat, meat, tomatoes, lettuce, and cheese at almost any time of year, without any industrial climate tinkering. Even pre-industrial mule transport could get your ingredients from one altitudinal climate gradient to another within a day, though in my region's cool mountain climate, we can grow all the ingredients in the same garden (even heat-loving tomatoes give some yield in our area).