Posted on 12/24/2016 12:15:54 PM PST by EveningStar
Food scientists at Cornell University have produced a strain of broccoli that thrives in hot environments, which may make it possible for states with stiflingly hot summers to grow the vegetable. California, where cool coastal fog is perfect for growing standard broccoli, currently produces more than 90 percent of the broccoli grown in the United States. If California were to disappear, what would the American diet be like?
Expensive and grainy. California produces a sizable majority of many American fruits, vegetables, and nuts: 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots (and the list goes on and on). Some of this is due to climate and soil. No other state, or even a combination of states, can match California's output per acre. Lemon yields in California, for example, are more than 50 percent higher than in Arizona. California spinach yield per acre is 60 percent higher than the national average. Without California, supply of all these products in the United States and abroad would dip, and in the first few years, a few might be nearly impossible to find. Orchard-based products in particular, such as nuts and some fruits, would take many years to spring back.
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I'm sure anywhere in the US, if they were to "harvest" (dredge) the mud from river bottoms, they would improve both the surrounding topsoil, and the rivers.
I agree with your comment
Plus, we won’t let them secede which is unstated point of Salons article.
California is resource rich, has three huge ports, several naval, army and air force bases, plus all that broccali.
Irrigated at huge expense, much of that from all US taxpaers
Why should a few liberals get all those assets? They belong to all of us. Any serious attempt to secede should be seen as theft of critical national resources.
Bottom line: if liberals want to leave, go ahead. But you can’t take trillions of dollars of assets with you
Feces free veggies?
Let them go without strings attached. The rest of there USA would be much better off.
When they run out of money to support their undocumented immigrants, and they start rioting, they’ll cave in. Principals for liberals are fluid at best.
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They would have to dredge the Gulf of Mexico...
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What would California grow without water from the Colorado?
They need to take a close look at what would happen to California without the benefits offered by this great nation. A good sweep of the illegals and prosecution of their plantation masters would make California a nice enough place to live that the rest of the nation could get rid of their transplant infestations.
Does CA need water from other states for these veggies/nuts?
So is thee a dam that can stop Colorado River water form entering CA? If so where does the diverted water go then?
“The loss of California’s output would create a dire situation for at least a decade.”
Bull.
California would have no alternative market for their produce, and would have to sell it to the same distributors on day +1 as they did on day-1.
Over the course of the first year, they would have to compete on equal footing with Mexico, Chile and Brazil for the markets, as farmers started setting up more competitive operations inside the US borders.
Competitors would adapt. After three seasons, it would be a whole new ball game for vegetables. Tree grown products would naturally take longer to adjust.
Sweet potatoes, greens, turnips, satsumas and strawberries abound near me. I just drive a few miles out of town and buy from the back of someone’s truck. All local. No angst. No worries.
Having second thoughts about secession? Is not broccoli king?
And the PLA Navy will homeport in San Diego within six months.
And with their wacky gun control, there wil be little local defense.
The plan if Cal secedes: shut off Colorado river, plus stop interstate electric transport. Make alliances with red counties (their food resource), isolate 3 counties in SF and 2 in LA. Those counties can surrender or be invaded (land or Sea). Afterwards exile liberal leaders and install interim government that agrees with the goals of a union of the states.
It worked in 1865.
And with their wacky gun control, there wil be little local defense.
The plan if Cal secedes: shut off Colorado river, plus stop interstate electric transport. Make alliances with red counties (their food resource), isolate 3 counties in SF and 2 in LA. Those counties can surrender or be invaded (land or Sea). Afterwards exile liberal leaders and install interim government that agrees with the goals of a union of the states.
It worked in 1865.
How stupid, we eat food from Mexico and South America all the time. California would need all the income it could get!
Mmmmmmmm. Kapusta. Mine is almost ready.
Ditto that.
Yes ma’am I do grow both.
OK.
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