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.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
“New Jersey is called the Garden State because at one time it had the most vegetable gardens of any state “
There probably used to be gardens in Camden.
I think that people need to look at the county-voting map. Eastern California is reliably Republican. They’ve also been screwed over and over by the eco-freaks and Sacramento with regulations and taxes.
I doubt that they’d want to join the new People’s Republican.
So we keep the water. We keep the vast growing areas.
They get three cities and ocean waters that they’ve put off limits for fishing, desalination, and fossil fuel development.
They’re deluding themselves if they think that the state will willingly follow them off the cliff.
Slogan: “If the US is divisible, then California is divisible.”
“””Vitamin C was responsible for the cure of scurvy and was obtained as an Iroquois decoction from the bark and leaves from this “tree of life”, now commonly referred to as arborvitae. Based on seasonal and diurnal amino acid analyses of candidate “trees of life”, high levels of arginine, proline, and guanidino compounds were also probably present in decoctions prepared in the severe winter. Arbor Vitae””””
Yeah, but try to keep the deer from eating it.
What most people do not know is that refers to the population, and not its produce.
“The state is near bankruptcy already.”
Yeah, but somehow it’s like all the liberal rags that pose as newspapers, somehow it never quite gets to the tipping point. But I continue to have hope that it’s going to go under sooner rather than later.
An “independant” California would be reabsorbed by Mexico within five years. Lets give them New Mexico as well as compensation for taking Calexico.
Without all the water appropriated from a distance, they would be back to wrangling longhorn steers as did the Californios.
I think Hollywood would be the seventh, like Berlin or Vatican City.
Utah, Colorado, Nevada, especially Arizona could utilize the portion of the Colorado River allocated to southern California. California court muscle gained an advantage over Arizona about division of the allocations.
California’s fruits and nuts were donated to us by all of the other states. Until the 60’s we were fine. Y’all sent us your hippy kids, and destroyed things for those of us actually GROWING your food. You you really think that the fruits and nuts are farmers? LOL!! We in the Central Valley are NOT liberals! Because of your donated 60’s jerks, our votes don’t even count anymore.
>:(
And trying to figure out how to move MORE people in to So Cal! They’re looking to those miniature homes. LA CANNOT sustain the people it has, and they want more! Their votes, however, give them the power to siphon off water needed for the farms. LA is sending its human waste to Kern County. Kern citizens fought it, tooth and nail. Guess who won? Please, don’t consider all of California to be your enemy. We were invaded, but we’re still here.
God bless you, Viking! They’re all throwing too big a loop!
So true...except the part about voting: The commie coast has all of the votes. We’re impotent at the ballot box because of the influx from all of the other states overwhelming us with imported fruits and nuts.
There used to be a huge lake in the center of the San Joaquin Valley—Tulare Lake.
http://www.mylemooreleader.com/125818 — “Tulare Lake was once considered largest body of water west of Mississippi”
I like that. Perfect.
so I throw out a tired California joke(being from Socal) and I get back an impertinent Archie Bunker stlyed rant.
I guess that what happens when you get on your soapbox.
Mine isn’t a soap box! It’s an orange crate! ;) (Merry Christmas, anyway! You’re a Freeper, after all; so you must be perfect!)
Well, it was pointless on my part to argue with such a speculative piece by academics about secession. My point, though, was that, if it were so, California wouldn’t dream of trying to prevent the US from buying its veggies. We’d be at once its most profitable trading partner. I should have kept my keyboard shut.
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