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To: jjotto

WILL FARMERS SELLOUT AMERICA FOR $$$?

Farming the World: China’s Epic Race to Avoid a Food Crisis
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-feeding-china/

Californians, Chinese Scooping Up Farmland in Washington State
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/californians-chinese-scooping-farmland-washington-state-n401841

Saudi Arabia buying up farmland in US Southwest
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/15/saudi-arabia-buying-up-farmland-in-us-southwest.html


16 posted on 07/14/2017 11:20:23 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: stars & stripes forever

“Saudi Arabia buying up farmland in US Southwest”

Thanks for those links. I’m really not liking the idea of the Saudis, or any other nation for that matter, buying up the farmland so they can grow their crops here for export back to their own nation. It gets even worse that the areas they’re buying have unlimited water usage. So while California is forcing farmers in the Central Valley to quit farming due to water shortages, the Saudis are using all the water they want to grow alfalfa to ship back to dairies in SA. Essentially, because they own the land, they are shipping our nation’s water to SA, using as much as they want for free. This needs to end NOW.


22 posted on 07/14/2017 12:03:56 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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