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Article #996Re: Murray-Darling Basin
From: Peter Webb
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:47
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:47
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"DonH" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:QHKqo.1111$hz6.468@viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com... > "Peter Webb" <webbfamily@DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message > news:4caab149$0$8038$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au... >> > >>> Unless starved, humans breed without bounds. The over allocation of >>> water >>> carried out by the NSW government has been for growing export crops >>> rather than food security. >> >> Food security! >> >> ROFL. >> >> Australia already exports 2/3rds of its food production. Given we grow >> enough food for about 60m people, and we only have 21m people, food >> security is not an issue for Australia. >> >> > > # Odd. I heard recently that Australia now imports a lot of its food; > possibly due to arable land on the urban fringe being covered by new > domestic dwellings. You heard crap. We import very little food, and export huge quantities of it. In fact with 21 million people we are the 5th largest food exporter in the world, and export more food per capita than any other nation on earth. We rank 1st in surplus food production per capita of the 192 countries in the UN. We are the *last* country on earth to need to worry about food security.
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