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The C-Free Diet: If we didn't have California, what would we eat?
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| July 10, 2013
| Brian Palmer
Posted on 12/24/2016 12:15:54 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
I am visiting family in the Bay Area for Christmas, and am shocked how it’s starting to look just like New Jersey (not a compliment).
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:27:18 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: EveningStar
If the rest of the nation were to lose Californias agricultural riches tomorrow...what an utterly stupid premise.
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:27:31 PM PST
by
RC one
(The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
To: EveningStar
I guess some folks at Slate really think California is going to secede from the United States. All these lefties are nutcases.
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:28:15 PM PST
by
dowcaet
To: EveningStar
If we didn't have California All that water that is currently diverted to that natural desert would be available for use elsewhere, at a smaller cost to society. And California would look more like the deserts in Mexico.
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:28:18 PM PST
by
Bernard
(The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
To: StAntKnee
Up a rope, Salon. Actually it's Slate. I made a boo-boo.
To: EveningStar
It’s not the liberals growing that produce. Besides, who says we still can’t trade with the independent country of California?
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:28:59 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: Chainmail
I got a problem with the USA invading another state, even crazy CA. So ease up.
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:29:52 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:30:08 PM PST
by
mulligan
(I)
To: stocksthatgoup
Well you’ve certainly raised the bar here. Lots of interesring stuff to research from your comment. Thx
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:30:55 PM PST
by
jcon40
To: EveningStar
....just think how much more could have been produce if it weren’t for fake drought call by control
freak liberal politicians
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:31:06 PM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: EveningStar
we'd eat potatoes, and apples, and corn, and wheat products...we'd eat berries of all kinds and cherries and lots of mid western or Texas beef....
people don't remember that NYS used to be the number one apple producer, and was also a big Cherry grower....and makes wonderful cheese...
we'd have lots of great wines and great cheeses from our Northern states...
I love California for its beauty and its amazing farmlands and redwoods etc...
but if they don't want to be part of us, let it be...
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:31:31 PM PST
by
cherry
To: RBStealth
“But what kind of nut ... When you don’t know what’s on the other side? ... Native: Oh, Berries, herbs, naturally grown fruits, and organically grown vegetables.”
Stan Freberg interviewing The Native.
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:31:37 PM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: EveningStar
Somehow I think this is the first article (of many) that advocates a “grateful tax” to the indispensable state of California to pay for the underpaid farm workers who pick the vegetables that keep the rest of the country healthy.
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:31:49 PM PST
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
To: EveningStar
Indoor or sky-farming.
(Drops mic)
To: EveningStar
Slate, Salon. What’s the diff, eh?
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:32:11 PM PST
by
StAntKnee
(Add your own danged sarc tag)
To: EveningStar
Salon wimps...what would you eat? Because, even though you’d encourage secession, you’d be the one getting “seceded”. We’ll keep the land, you can GTFO...either by choice or choice made for you.
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:33:01 PM PST
by
WKUHilltopper
(WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:34:09 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: EveningStar
The real question is can California survive not receiving tariff-free electricity from the other states?
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:34:15 PM PST
by
sevlex
To: EveningStar
Recently I bought a table and inside the drawer was a slip of paper that said "This product contains wood dust, a substance known to the state of California to cause cancer." Wood dust. The manufacturer had to get those slips printed, someone had to put them in place, and someone had to verify they were there or woe be to them if they ended up in California wihout them.
So for me the question is what if all the ridiculous regulations that California imposed no longer ended up imposed on every product sold in all the other 49 states, what might that do to our production costs? Hmmm?
To: EveningStar
I guess we’d have to buy our produce from Mexico.
Oh, wait....
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posted on
12/24/2016 12:35:24 PM PST
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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