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FUBAR I: Chinese Food Imports Now Demand More Land Mass Than The Entire State Of California
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,
Here’s the good news:
Nie Zhenbang, a Chinese agronomy expert and former director of the Chinese State Grain Administration, recently announced that 2013 was a record year for Chinese grain production.
Here’s the not so good news:
“Although the number is huge,” said Nie, “it still could not satisfy domestic consumer demand. In recent years, China’s food imports have been increasing. Agricultural product imports are roughly equivalent to the productive capacity of 47 million hectares of planted area.”
47 million hectares is 181,468 square miles.
To put this number in context, if you could cram together all the farmland and pasture that it takes to grow the food just being imported by China, the total area of this land mass would be larger than the entire state of California.
Seem far-fetched? Let’s walk through the numbers.
Consider that China’s 1.4 billion people consume an average 2,970 Calories per day; this means that the Chinese population requires a whopping 2 quadrillion Calories each year.
With an average 8 million Calories per year for an average hectare of land (1 hectare = 2.47 acres), this means that China’s population needs over 250 million hectares, or nearly 1 million square miles, to sustain itself.
Between drought conditions, soil pollution, and a raging dustbowl, China doesn’t have anywhere near that much quality land available to grow crops and raise livestock. They have to look abroad. So Mr. Nie’s estimates are definitely in the right ballpark.
There’s more.
The chief economist of China’s Agriculture Ministry, Qian Keming, estimates that in the coming years, Chinese grain demand will increase by 10 million ADDITIONAL tons each year.
Based on the global average yield of 3.11 metric tons of grain per hectare, China’s growing grain demand will tied up 12,000+ additional square miles of farmland per year, every year.
Bear in mind that 12,000 square miles is more or less the size of the Netherlands… just to satisfy China’s growing demand for grain.
And all we’re really talking about is one country, one food product.
This says nothing about imports of meat, fruit, nuts, etc. Nor does it speak to the growing food demand for literally billions of other people across the developing world.
It is a fact that daily Calorie consumption is directly correlated to per-capita GDP, and the data supports this conclusion.
A 2011 study authored by researchers from the University of Minnesota and UC Santa Barbara demonstrates “a simple and temporally consistent global relationship between per capita GDP and per capita demand for crop calories or protein.”
Simply put, as a nation becomes wealthier, its people consume more Calories and more protein.
Taiwan, for example, increased per capita meat consumption from just 13 kilograms annually in 1951 (when it was totally destitute) to 66 kilograms annually in 1992 (when it was an industrialized ‘Asian Tiger’).
This is important because it takes a lot more land to grow a kilogram of meat than anything else.
So as nations become wealthier, it takes much more land per-capita basis to feed them.
China is experiencing this growth right now. And this demand is only the tip of the iceberg.
Tomorrow I’ll tell you about the supply-side of the equation… and show you why the absolute BEST case scenario is substantially higher food prices.
This is what makes agriculture THE no-brainer investment for the coming decade.
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Total square miles of Australia - 2.97 million sqaure miles,
640 acres in a square mile,
Therefore, 1,900,800,000 acres or 7,603,200,000 quarter acres in Australia.
7.046 Billion people on the planet.
That means there is enough room in Australia alone for each man, woman, and child to have their own 1/4 acre lot in Australia, which leaves the rest of the entire planet available for agriculture.
Can't we all just get along?
And the water comes from.... ?
It's in those bottles at the grocery store. Details, details.... /sarc
Don't forget fertilizers/topsoil.
How can anyone let their kid get that gluttonously fat?! It looks like a totally different species of hominid.
That is not hominid, is porcine specimen dredge from China river. There are many such.
Even better than Australia is Antarctica. Nobody lives there yet so nobody will need to be displaced..it's brilliant.
"And the water comes from.... ?"
Details, details. We render or incinerate a few million pets in the US alone each year. There is still opportunity to gamma-source and bag them for shipment to china. That's a few billion extra callories a year right there.
And although we're down to just over 1 million abortions in the US each year, that's still a few billion recoverable calories per year there as well.
Of course, it'll all be eaten by 'those people'. No need to look for the 'Processed in China' label on the mystery slime at the local grocery store. Because a neatly printed plastic bag is the universally recognized symbol of the highest quality processed foods.
Canada has 32,892,992 sq mi, so ten times that of Australia,
Lots of fresh water and arable land.
But no, not going to share...
Let's start, The Hunger Game.
And better yet Antartica has plenty of dihydrogen monoxide, add some heat and you have all the water needed to sustain crops during the growing season. Now they just need a growing season. It's the details that get in the way.
I think you're right, Boris...
I looked it up...
it's a Hippopotamus Asiatus native to the Huang Ho river.
No, this is just pig. River is where you are finding many pig in China.
Mongo says possibly Fukushima species! You know, for the chinese kids!
And the water comes from.... ?
MARS!!!
1. Melt polar icecaps
2. ?
3. Profit!
1) In process
2) Optimism
3) Profit.
Always works.
I'm supposed to believe that the AVERAGE Chinese is eating 3000 calories a day?
They would all look like the caricature photo used for the article.
"I'm supposed to believe that the AVERAGE Chinese is eating 3000 calories a day?"
The secret is they still work. About 1200 cal/day will super-size you if Uncle Sugar pays you to stay home all day and play with your Obamaphone.
Can't agree more. If you ever tried eating the same chinese meal as locals in a food outlet for Chinese people, you'd come out pretty hungry. The *average* Chinese person is short and lean, and often less that that in rural areas... I would divide that nuber of calories in half.
"and the water comes from?"
Nestle?
Yeah, but Nestle gets it from Evian...
Sorry Flakmeister but no Evian water for Nestle, Groupe Danone (France) owns Evian...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOcjWG6Ykc
Mea Culpa, couldn't remember if they bought Evian or Perrier...
Nestle gets its water from aquifers, local-sourced globally, then sold back to the peoples.
oh, when they're not pulling water from Lake Michigan to bottle 'n' sell to. . .China.
Detroit & China & Lake Michigan. . . the plot thickens. . .
Countless water sources around the globe are also poisoned by the rogue MNCs operating facories, drilling rigs etc with scant regard for the environment (unnecessarily, to save a buck).
"And the water comes from.... ?"
Don't you worry, Nestle is on it.
Perrier! duh?
No water in Australia.
All the arable land on the planet that can be easily mde productive is in production and has been for a century or longer, except whatever little can be had by clear cutting the Amazon. But the soil there is only about 6 inches deep and is gone in a few years.
It's over. There is no solution.
There's undoubtedly solutions... the question is whether the apes will be able to find them in time.
Optimism is the best solutions there is. If it turns out there's no solution, you're still optimistic. If there is a solution, you're even more optimistic. Plus, optimists have more optimistic DNA-bling causing even more optimism about solutions.
Overall, optimism is the way to go in any situation.
There are more than few here that are optimistic things will not end well...
"Well" is when there are 10 people left alive on the planet, and you are the dominant dood of those 10.
Well isn;t that every libtards fantasy??
1 dude and 9 chicks
Hosanna on high!
Catastrophic and chaotic depopulation is going to be the solution imposed on us unless we can address population overshoot in some other way that we find more palatable.
a few volcanos popping off in one year could do that...darken the days...no sun for growing...colder temps...and many of us turn to fossils in a few billion years
You KNOW that depopulation is the end game - look for a massive outbreak of avian flu in Asia ripping through China, SE Asia and South Asia.
Boom - you've just reduced the fastest growing populations. Expect a huge die off in Africa - clearing the way for recolonization and massive raw material exploitation. The lower classes in the West will be hard hit as well - but then it's not like there are many employment opportunities for the unskilled and uneducated so still a net 'gain.' Of course if you have the money a 'miracle' drug will be available - but in severely limited quantities (politicians at the front of the line for free as 'critical personnel').
Just one of 'those things' - like 1919........ Gaia getting revenge. PROVE it's NOT a 'natural' occurrence.......
Think 'V for Vendetta' on a global scale. Of course TPTB will say 'We HAD to do it to SAVE humanity'.
I think that is exactly the plan. Don't some "socialists" believe that the world can support 300M total population? Well in this everything-is-manipulated world we have systems that take from the productive and reward the unproductive. The more lack of productivity is rewarded the more the supply of unproductive people grows. Anyone can see where this leads. Keynes seems to have understood that on a long enough timeline...
So if you want to depopulate the world you have to realize by now that war is not going to do it unless it is WMD. If WMD comes out on a global scale there is a good chance no humans will survive so this is not a workable plan.
Maybe you look at history. The climate changes. Human history is littered with examples of population growth and decline in parallel with climate changes. The timing is right for a change, gradual though it may be. To ensure this really does knock down the population you just have to make sure the population is crowded and absolutely cannot feed itself once on the downramp weather-wise. Add in convenient but happy accidents like Fukushima and peak oil and this will be a dream come true for the people who want to play God and control everything (MarxiDemocommusociafacsiticRepubonazis+Bankers+useful-idiots-like-Zuckerberg). Bring on the famine, disease, and full on break down.
Well, If that doesn't work I can attest to the fact the microbes are waiting in the wings for any opportunity to finish the job. They always win in the end.
Miffed;-)
I think the Georgia Guidestones laid out the plan as explicitly as possible.
500 million baby!
"There's undoubtedly solutions"
Really? Solutions (plural) without a doubt? No doubts at all of any kind? Solutions for everyone, that won't destroy the planet? That will find ready capital for investment, healthy regulatory environments, and able workers with the correct skill sets?
Seriously? In the mutherfucking plural?
You know -- that's just about 6 different kinds of steaming bullshit.
The human race cannot afford any more blind appeals to faith. We either wrap our heads around how we're going back -- going back to something rational and sustainable -- or we're just going to eat each other like a pack of rabid cannibals on crack.
Come on - stop being so pessimistic W.
Sing along with me: "When you wish upon a star. . . "
You need to get out more. Efficiency of seawater desalinization has improved by leaps and bounds in recent decades. And in north america, we haven't even begun to tap into the Great Lakes, which dump huge quantities of fresh water into the Atlantic ocean. And even though the US has ceased researching nuclear power, the rest of the world is pursuing a variety of promising technologies. Clean, safe, efficient nuclear power is not that far off.
There are LOADS of solutoins that fit your requirements. In the original Dustbowl a guy by the name of Howard Finnel figured out that plowing/furrowing on contour would allow water to soak in not flow off the land. On soak and the grass can start growing again to stabilize the soil. (this is the basic groundwork for desert rehab)
A few years later after WW2 P.A. Yeomans furthered the concept (I think independently discovered) in Australia. His farm started in 1940s and is still there today; it was built on "unusable" land. (this system is called the Keyline plan)
Still later Bill Mollison and David Holmgren laid out the beginnings of Permaculture. Currently Geoff Lawton is running the Permaculture Institute and they have a nice working model of "Greening the Desert" project. (Permaculture is a method of design that essentially makes really efficient use of the elements within the design. Example: cycling water through many elements before discharging it. Most of what I am talking about here is agricultural, but PC is not limited to this and the concepts can be applied to any functional design)
Brad Landcaster is using swales and rainwater harvesting techniques in Arizona to GREAT success. It storms a few times a year in most deserts, the key is to capture the water when it comes so you can use it when you need it later. The drought in CA now followed by a potentially wet season is laughable; why are people building drains and not swales so that the next drought that hits will be mitigated?
People like Mansoba Fukuoka were doing similar stuff in the early 1900s with "do nothing farming" and seedballs.
Sepp Holtzer is growing pumpkins and other warm weather crops in alpine conditions.
Jean Pain shows in practice and his book, "A new kind of Garden", shows how to harvest methane from managed forests that also results in fire prevention. If the world's forests were managed appropriatly they would produce about as much energy as we consume annually. (moving it around and other problems do exist)
We can literally double to arable growing area of the earth for almost no cost (local resources primarily) and with unskilled labor. A bunch of women in India can dig you the best swales/earthworks you can imagine; in MUCH more detail than the bulldozer.
Used tires can be rammed with earth to create long lasting highly durable "Earthships" - a type of house designed by Michael Reynolds. When designed properly the houses can supply heating/cooling/water/waste management passively.
Anyway, there really are loads of solutions - this was just a few off the top of my head. Google any of those names and you'll likely be impressed with what they have actually shown works (often times for decades).
Oh one more: China is also way out ahead on some of this stuff. In the 1990s they started looking into greening their deserts for just the reasons we are seeing now. It took them a while to get going, but they have a working model now and a few thousand square kilometers finished. Within the next few years they hope to be at (i think) 10-20k sq kilos. Check out a documentary on it: "Green Gold".
Just as long as the "solution" doesn't have a "final" label on it, I'm all ears....
Mother Nature doesn't concern herself too much with lables.
Australia has water. We just not allowed to utilise it effectively with more dams and pipelines (eg farmers in South Australia being blocked from their own dams by fees and reg's).
In the late 1800's we ere mastering pipelines that now provide water to over 100,000 people 500km away from easy access water sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfields_Water_Supply_Scheme
The scheme consisted of three key elements – the Mundaring Weir, which was fed with water from the Helena River in the Darling Scarp; a 760 millimetres (30 in) diameter steel pipe which ran from the dam to Kalgoorlie 530 kilometres (330 mi) away; and a series of eight pumping stations and two small holding dams to control pressures and to lift the water over the Darling Scarp ridge.
It's not the land as much as the water. Most of Australia is a desert.
....It's not the water so much as the radioactive cesium...
Taking a dump might prove problematic.
Who is that ugly child...and why??
"Let them eat rice cake."
"Let them eat rice cake."
Nope, rice needs more water than practically another food crop on earth - no water no rice. Rice is nice.
'long pork' - the Chinese euphamism for Soylent Green. Plenty of that around - though it will be getting scrawnier and tougher.
Speaking of which - a remake of Soylent Green set in China would be disturbingly plausible. Too bad the Chicoms would never allow it to be seen.
Greatest fucking picture! Thank You Tyler.
OK, lets charge them exorbitant prices for crappy food.
After all, Turnabout is fair play
And poof! The trade balance is restored. That is of course if the US government stops subsidizing farmers to not grow...
No shit. Cut yoga mats into blocks and label it Tofu.
And no matter what meat we label it as, it better be 100% fucking cat...every time.
Wait. I like cats.
Make that feral hog...
"it better be 100% fucking cat...every time."
Brilliant! First eat cats, then when rat population multiplies, eat them too!
Hidden Bonus: no more LOL catz on the internet!
ISIS likes cats. You're in trouble...
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jonstone/foreign-jihadi-fighters-in-iraq-and-syria-keep-tweeting-pict
Look it! I said no eating cats! I dig them.
Let the pigs eat pigs...
One way to recycle humans - less direct than 'long pork' or Soylent Green. Pigs have no problems eating dead humans - or pretty much anything else. More a matter of time and effort. If you're starving can you wait for the additional transformative step?
Everyone needs to be able to go outside and forage a meal if they have to. You might end up eating the same stuff everyday but it's better than having to eat people or starve.
Don't tell me you don't have minnows, frogs, toads, chipmonks, birds, snakes, lizards, deer, rats, muscrats, beaver, moose, or just plain old acorns.
China? Can't fix it. They are gonna starve or conquer. Japan looks a lot less tasty now that they farted the nuke plant up.
Purrsian fighters? lol omg wtf
You obviously have never been to the outing where an entire Boar is BBQ'ed....
You obviously don't know what type of boar I'm referring to.
The ones I'm talking about gestate in 3 days, grow the size of a two seater jet ski and taste exactly like 3 day dead rectum.
Fair enough...
I've only ever had the good ones...
In some parts, those are the good ones.
"and taste exactly like 3 day dead rectum"
way to leave yourself some wiggle room...
I hope it wasn't 3 day dead human rectum
Yeah, I just let that slide, TMI....
That was too tasty to pass up...
Philippines and central america frequently bury a whole pig/boar on hot coals and leave it to cook for a day and sometimes two.
Then it gets hauled up and you discover where 'eating high on the hog" came from. That meat on its back is excellent.
Had a Berber friend that did a wicked good Mechoui...
Aside: He took at low end lectureship with TUM in Munich and upon a return visit told us with a straightface he found a crappy place to live in a suburb called Dachau...
well, the balancing news is that the rain forests have been bulldozed for farmland at the rate of about 4000 acres/hour for about a decade now.
True Story:
Place I used to work sold their retired truck fleet to a dealer from Texas (stetson, boots, string tie - the whole nine yards). So I asked him where they were going, and he said "Brazil, to haul logs."
So, I once drove a truck that was used to haul logs out of the Amazon. Small world.
That Picture is perfect. That kid has some volume....
Looks like America does have some exports.....fatties!
I just came back from China - bunch of skinny bastards. You don't see anything equivalent to the American land whale. Of course, I didn't see everyone or every place.
That's why I call bullshit on this article. Average calorie needs for women are around 2000 and for men, 2600, assuming moderate activity. And these skinny bastards are averaging 3000? Highly unlikely.
Those ipads have to have sparkling clear screens.
I am with you, that 3k calories is about 50% too high, as long as you are getting the actual needed nutrients. Look at America, home of the malnourished 300 lb human. We have plenty of calories, but nutrients? lol
pods
WALL - E without the floating personal Rascal Scooters.....
The calorie total is just barely on the edge of credible.
Kids burn more. Fat kids even more than that.
But 3000 is really pushing that edge.
(Antarctic outside work authorizes 5000 calories btw)
I don't know where they come up with "2000 calories a day for women." You see it all over the place, but it's insane. Most women I know who aren't fat eat about 1500 calories a day, unless they are sports fanatics. And I'm not talking about women on a diet; I mean women who eat like a normal human should. I have never seen a credible source for the 2000 figure (let alone 3000!!!!!).
So whoever wants to take down China just needs to cut off their food imports - much like Russia.
They'll start dropping like flies in about a week.
Think about that.
Ukraine was a twofer, maybe threefer.
All that ag land the Chinese had leased with its harvest going overland.
Talk about being in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
The Chinese aren't in Africa just for the oil...
..or the negros....
HAHAAHAHAHAHA
So that's why smartphones get bigger all the time?
Funny picture; cracked me up. California, eh? maybe they'd like to buy it ?
They already are.
Hungry?
When the TP$ (Petro$) goes poof and only foreigners have money, gold, add starvation to the list of ills of the American people, as foreigners buy every scrap of food produced here.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
Maybe or maybe not Thomas Jefferson
What's the Chinese word for Lebensraum?
Reblenslaum?
You rock, sir!
Take a bow.
The boys and girls in the monsanto / Dupont labs have been working on this for a long time. The increase in farm production is unreal. But if they continue to turn down GMO crops then maybe they will get a little hungry. It is the solution like it or not. Or of course you could just take every other person and shoot them. Then we have plenty of land to grow "organic" foods.....
That's reserved for the USSA land whales.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/groundbreaking-investigation-reveals-monsanto-teaming-up-with-us-military-to-target-gmo-activists/5344496
I picked a good year to begin training my oxen team. I'm having a blast running this hobby farm (part time gig for me)....learning a ton and eating a ton of delicious food from the gardens already. Looks like a bumper year for my cherry trees and strawberries.
I don't know if we're in the beginning of another dustbowl or not, but I've never had more fun than over the past 3 years getting this farm up and running. Adding another cistern to my barn roofs along with several thousand feet of drip lines....
I hope everybody reading this finds a hobby as fulfilling.
What breed of cattle are you using?
One of my friends gave me a couple of pet goats, and I'd forotten how cool goats were. They act like dogs. Very trainable. I don't have the acreage for cows...no with our yearly rainfall average. Maybe some day. Congrats of your pet cows though. They can be very sweet creatures.
I have been playing with hugelkultur though both as a gardening methd and to mitigate stormwater runoff.
love the goats, from nubians to CAGBAs.
I've set my sights on gettin' a YAK though, the "Highland Cow" for more edgy folks, heh. . .
one day, *smiles*
I was surprised that yaks do well in my vicinity. Crossbreeds do even better given hybrid vigor.
Goat Party. ;0
Goats are much better than cattle. They take less space, eat anything and usually have two kids so you can grow your heard much faster. Stay away from boar goats, I had a huge male and it almost killed me.
I've raised Guernsey's and Jerseys....for the oxen, I'm going with a pair of Holsteins. If this expirement fails, i'll have plenty of beef for my efforts.
I'm surprised how trainable/friendly cows are, too. Amazing pets....convert grass to milk and meat. What a creature!
I'll be putting in another raised bed in a couple of weeks (yes, it's late in the season, but it's the only chance I have). Still need other stuff done, too, but one thing at a time.
I feel the same way about internet porn.
Solly .. no can eat empty buildings.
this means that the Chinese population requires a whopping 2 quadrillion Calories each year
Sounds like a snack for the Wookie.
save the children! We need those guns!
Lieing motherfuckers
Chow Fat
Edit: Yung Chow Fat
That is really bad news for China.
They are probably set to return to an agrarian economy sometime in the next 10 years (along with the rest of us but probably 10 years ahead of the US) and if they are already importing food then that transition is going to be lethal.
Disorderly retreat. Sun Tsu is not impressed.
Reposted from over at RC (ht Chris Korda)
Detritivores.
Brilliant.
Thanks for sharing that. Once in a while I read something here that is seriously enriching, and that made the list.
Bad news, yes, but for the rest of the world.
Why?
Because the Chinese can afford their food imports, they are not poor anymore. It's the rest of the world that has to deal with rising food prices driven up by Chinese demand.
Economics baby, economics.
Meanwhile idiots continue to scream about GMO cereal crops. GMO corn and beans have been in commercial use for 20 years. Any proven or documented ill effects? Any?
Here is what is being worked on right now, modifying corn so that it fixes its own Nitrogen. Modifying any plant so that it optimizes the use of available Phosphorus by excreating acid into the soil around the root zone.
Go ahead show your anti science idiocy, down arrow me all want and go up arrow some global warming fraud instead.
Relax. Nobody cares anymore. It's just all a nightmare now nobody is getting out without losing at least a limb.
we have plenty of nitrogen and phosphorus
Nitrogen is basically Nat Gas, no argument there...
Phosphorus could get iffy in a few years...
Water will do us in first...
Edit: Or a collapse in oil production...
exhibit 3, grantham tells me known reserves of phosphorus / production = 400 years
http://www.advisoranalyst.com/glablog/2011/07/25/gmos-jeremy-granthams-q...
dont know much about water, but i believe north america is better off than the rest of the world. reverse osmosis desalination plant on Jersey island gives 160 liters/ 1.3 kwh, not bad
oil declines may finally let us institute a sensible monetary system, ill take that for starters
Pick your study, all the data is pretty dodgy:
As for water, yes, clearly NA is the place to be. I think your "sensible monetary" system is a pipe dream if only by the time it becomes feasible, it will not be necessary....
people will always need a money system. in the far distant future it will not involve fiat or interest rates, and all the hopes of the bankers will be dashed. im prepared to wait a long time, but the journey there has already started.
Geez Flak, did your account get hacked or sumthin'? Three non-douche posts in a row. Can't be the real Flak. :-)
Truly remarkable things can occur when I am not being gratuitously insulted...
LOL.
How true, Duck.
When your balls shrink to the size of BBs, don't look surprised.
You might want to do some reading outside the Monsanto Library.
LOL
Some have enough sense to realize that yet again we have lost the right to produce our own food and make our own dietary choices.
Yet you trust that only large-scale agriculture and science can meet global requirements. Why?
These days food often looks, smells and tastes different to how it used to be. It is grown, packaged, distributed and stored in the least optimal conditions, yet can still pass a declining standard of quality checks, and be marketed well-enough to sell.
Effetively we have a tiered production system of relative nutritional value, and a relative level of safety. Is this good?
But, I'm just a paranoid luddite, who can't grasp that science is fully in control. The appliance of science is always benevolant and worthwhile.
nice post Zero-risk bias. Luddites love their old-style luscious tomatoes, melons etc.
"we have lost the right to produce our own food and make our own dietary choices."
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Who's stopping you from buying dirt and growing your own?
You must be a city boy.
Hint: it's the seeds...
For the first time in my life, ants are not swarming around dog or cat food that is set outside. Flies are not landing on it either. This is alarming.
The high quality produce out of california is shipped to China. We see 2nd pickings here and we live in the Salad Bowl of the World in California. That is alarming as well.
Corporations came in and bought family farms after the loans designed to set up the owners for foreclosure were issued in early 2000. Suddenly, the value had doubled and tripled and when you have bills, you do what anyone would with sudden equity that will refinance at a lower interest rate, you refinance or create an equity line of credit.
This popsicle stand called the economy and the people in charge are sabotaging America's ability to do business within its own country - and they call it Global-fuck you-ization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhbRlhQgj_Y What's it like living in the dark? In love with your alibi? Trading it all in to avoid an unpleasant scene? Weaklink in da chain.
EMF?
Tinkering with Mother Nature is dangerous, 99 times in 100 you will benefit (higher yields, frost tolerance etc) but that 100th time will cause unexpected problems.
A few years ago they developed by GM a method of turning crop waste (like plant roots) into alchohol. It worked fine in the lab and was all set for field trials. Fortunatly one researcher ran some extra tests and found that the GM organism would not only turn crop waste into alcohol but would turn organic matter around growing plant roots into alcohol. The level would have been high enough to kill the plants. ALL PLANTS. What that would do to the ecology would be bigger than just about any past event (snowball earth, meteorite impact, extinction of dinosaurs etc).
HO NAAAAAH! HUNG GUYYYYYYYYYY!
I apologize in advance, I have done this bit before but it seems to apply:
Sum Ting Wong
The joke may be on us...
Polluted soil! No shit? Manufacturing chemicals poured into drains that go to rivers where that water is pumped onto fields and to animals?Long dead pigs!
Progress?
...or dead long pig. equally marketable in China most likely.
Re: Manufacturing chemicals poured into drains that go to rivers where that water is pumped onto fields and to animals?
It goes right into people's drinking water. If the Chinese survive their environment over the next few generations, the anti-environmentalists will be proven right: the solution to polution is dilution.
Only problem is that pollutant concentrations are overtaking our ability to dilute to safe levels.
Sounds like to many hungry hongs
the absolute BEST case scenario is substantially lower population levels.
Fixed it for you.
Durden!! How did you get my school yearbook photo?
You son of a.....
I will suuuuu you! ;P
Keep them away from your cockroach stash, they cant resist, nom. Casual racism strikes again.
Extra crispy.