To: farmfriend
ping
2 posted on
08/21/2003 2:40:02 PM PDT by
Willie Green
(Go Pat Go!!!)
To: Carry_Okie; Willie Green
Hey C_O, I thought that the U.N. statistics showed that the U.S. is a net importer of food. Whats with this article?
5 posted on
08/21/2003 2:59:27 PM PDT by
forester
(Reduce paperwork -- put foresters back in the forest!)
To: Willie Green
The big picture, according to Andy Jerardo, the report's author, shows the average share of food imports consumed by Americans has climbed from 7.8 percent in 1981-1985 to 11.1 percent in 1997-2001. That's a staggering 50 percent increase in America's taste for imported food in just 20 years.Oh, come on, that just a silly overreaction. If in 1980 the share of food imports were .001 percent and in 2000 they were 1 percent, would they rave about a 99,900% percent increase and say the sky is falling? lol The point is that 11.1 isn't far from 7.8 just like 1 percent wouldn't be much. It probably varies more than that from year to year.
11 posted on
08/21/2003 3:58:30 PM PDT by
#3Fan
To: Willie Green; AAABEST; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; amom; AndreaZingg; Anonymous2; ApesForEvolution; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
15 posted on
08/21/2003 4:10:07 PM PDT by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: Willie Green
Oink!
16 posted on
08/21/2003 4:14:43 PM PDT by
joanil
To: Willie Green
In 1980, 3.3 percent of all pork consumed per capita in America was imported; in 2001 the figure was 54 percent higher, or 5.1 percent. It's okay, they're leaving.
20 posted on
08/21/2003 4:20:26 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: Willie Green
Germany and even Iraq payed the price for relying on food imports, but still I enjoy fresh fruit from Chile so its not a clear cut issue for me.
67 posted on
08/24/2003 6:00:46 PM PDT by
junta
(Xenophobia a perfectly reasonable response to the feckless stupidity of globalism.)
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