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"Peter Webb" <webbfamily@DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message 
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> "DonH" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in message 
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>> "Peter Webb" <webbfamily@DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message 
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>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
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>> # 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.
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> You heard crap.
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> 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.
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> We rank 1st in surplus food production per capita of the 192 countries in 
> the UN.
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> We are the *last* country on earth to need to worry about food security.
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#  Perhaps it is more a case of everyone being busy in everyone else's 
nation - instead of concentrating on home affairs?  Thus, food may be 
imported because it is cheaper than the local product.
   Why do we want to import apples from NZ, or is it more that they want to 
sell them to us? (with their disease potential).
    As for irrigators in the Murray-Darling area, it may be a case of 
half-a-loaf is better than no bread, and if current practices are continued 
then there may be NO river system at all, to supply water to anyone.
    Also, reducing water allocation to irrigators and applying it to "the 
environment", may seem a "waste" of water (who cares about red gums, Murray 
cod, etc?), but we are likely more dependent on our habitat than we realise, 
and Nature has a way of imposing a hard lesson...  Which is probably why 
Mildura orange growers now use drip-feed - to help rectify, or minimise, the 
(unforeseen) salt problem.
   The Human Plague goes chomp, chomp, chomp - and Nature can be left to the 
Tree-huggers, and other idiots.