Posted on 11/02/2019 8:08:49 AM PDT by null and void
I didn’t write the article. Did you really think I did?
A lot of food, like out of season fruit, comes into California by sea. The map doesn’t show offshore maritime routes, like the ones leading to Buffalo by the Great Lakes.
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Thank you. (I was locked into thinking "shipping hub" which would be more Minneapolis...)
I believe Smithfield, makers of hams, bacon and other pork products, was purchased by the Red Chinese a few years ago.
Swine Fever is in full swing on mainland Chinese farms, and I often wonder what’s to keep spoiled meat off the markets?
Maybe it is hams and sausages coming into Long Beach via Cosco?
Also, tons of canned clams, oysters, frozen shrimp, salmon and tilapia come from China...
I could not find a single can of shellfish at Walmart that wasn’t Chinese. Didn’t buy.
would be interested in reading but their graphics aren’t worth a s#it.
“2/3 of the fruits and nutz(?) come from kali.”
I think I see what you did there.(though maybe accidentally)
I do everything I can to avoid buying anything made in California.
“For centuries people got their food from their own backyard/land, growing their own veggies, curing their meat, fresh milk and eggs.
Kind of sad things changed. Those skills are now lost to most people. Food is big business, travels across the country so not as fresh, and prices keep getting higher.”
All of complex civilization relies on specialization. The stone masons and artists that created Greek and Roman buildings were not farmers. In Rome most homes in the city had no kitchens. The Romans relied on food vendors, who, in turn relied on farmers. If we own iPhones and TV’s we can be certain the people building them are not growing their own food.
There is a danger to specialization. We have created a fragile civilization that depends on everything working correctly. Throw in a fuel shortage or a massive EMI strike and people will begin starving almost immediately. The power was out for weeks in several counties in Florida following Michael. The government shipped in and gave away MRE’s.
In any major war now it is likely more people will die of starvation than in the actual conflict.
In my former McMansion neighborhood it was against the county ordinance to have any farm animal and a garden visible from the street had better not contain anything resembling food products or the HOA would send a nasty letter threatening a lawsuit.
As for my present rural location, I can’t grow anything the deer like as they hide in the patch of thick woods between me and the dirt road. The little buggers watch me plant stuff and barely wait until dark to eat it.
Still, ya gotta eat...
AH! *forehead slap* Of course!
They already knew. AB5's destruction of tens of thousands of small businesses by incorrectly recategorizing them as employees isn't about helping Uber drivers who live in their cars in San Francisco, it is about destroying the food chain in California. All water must go to big cities...
I don’t buy any foods from China. They use antibiotics in their fish and chemicals on their produce that we have avoided for years.
One of the worst things I ever bought was frozen farm raised salmon from China. The meat was pock marked with abscesses. (barf ...)
Never again. If we don’t raise it ourselves I buy local.
I know I saw mile after mile after mile of almond tress uprooted along I/5 after the almighty state decided that delta smelt were more important than almond groves, farmers livelihoods, or food for people. I guess the pigs also suffered when the supply of almond husks for feed dried up. Probably honey bees as well since they are the major almond pollinator.
Thank God congress passed COOL legislation (Counrty Of Origin Labeling) so you can tell whuch foods came from China.
It's also double plus good that chickens raised in America, and processed in (presumably filthy) Chinese plants where the FDA inspectors are FORBIDDEN to enter can be marked as a Product of USA.
Significant post.
The consolidation of suppliers and food processors (canneries etc) explains why the local grocery store has disappeared along with local processors. Much of that was due to local, state, and fed regulations, enforced on those locals most often claiming protection not of the consumer but of big money donors.
Bingo. I’m only half way through The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and that much is quite clear.
Un-possible, what a bunch of made up malarkey. Everyone knows food come from the supermarket.
Just think, people could be growing their own beautiful gardens instead of playing video games and collecting food stamps. Ah, but the world has progressed.
A lot of grain used to be milled in Minneapolis (that’s why it’s the home of Pillsbury and Cargill). I’m not sure why Brainerd is on that map. I have trouble believing that more grain flows through it than the Cities.
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