🚀 go-pugleaf

PeopleEater wrote:

> orfairbairn@earthlink.net (Orval Fairbairn) wrote in message news:<orfairbairn-1108011224270001@1cust133.tnt8.daytona-beach.fl.da.uu.net>...
> > In article <719e2bbc.0108101659.e23003@posting.google.com>,
> > fenrir111@hotmail.com (PeopleEater) wrote:
> >
> > > Tulay <vctm1@gte.net> wrote in message news:<3B71B3D8.D6B233BF@gte.net>...
> > > > PeopleEater wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Walt Horning <whorning@pipeline.com> wrote in message
> >  news:<4g4slt47l6m44lj8it6js1io94ao3etfn3@4ax.com>...
> > > > > > Environmentalists are mentally ill:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  - they get a law passed to save gas by forcing car-makers to make
> > > > > >    smaller, less safe cars causing more highway deaths
> > > > > >
> > > > > >       Burning less oil is more important than human lives?
> > > > >
> > > > > We've gone to war over oil. So yes, I guess it is.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  - they get a law passed to save endangered fish along some rivers and
> > > > > >    the farmers cannot get water and are the ones now "endangered"
> > > > > >
> > > > > >       Fish are more important than humans?
> > > > >
> > > > > Endangered? How do you make that connection? Sure, farmers may get
> > > > > stiffed, but I really doubt their jobs are more important than an
> > > > > entire species. BTW, farmers' jobs have been endangered for the past
> > > > > 50 or so years, ever since America started went from agriculture to
> > > > > industry to a service based economy.
> > > >
> > > > US farmers produce more food than any other farmer in the world. (And
> > > > we do it with less farmers per acre.)
> > >
> > > cite please. Personally, it seems rather unlikely to me, esp. since
> > > agriculture is such a small sector of our ecnomy.
> >
> > Small, but vital. Try eating without it!
> >
> >
> >
> > > > > Fortunately for them, they get
> > > > > massive government subsidies so they DON'T die out completely. If
> > > > > anything, the biggest problem facing small farmers is corporatization.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >       Its "OK" for the farmers to die instead?
> > > > >
> > > > > Yeah, because they'll all die from starvation or dehydration.
> > > >
> > > > Then the rest of the people of the world will die also.
> > >
> > > how so? The US doesn't feed the world.
> >
> >
> > OH?? What do you think we DO with our huge agricultural output? Try
> > visiting the Port of New Orleans (or Sacramento) and see all the grain
> > ships lined up there, loading grain destined for the world. We truly live
> > in an international economy.
>
> I agree that ew do produce a surplus, but the other guy I was talking
> with seems to think that the US is the *only* nation that actually
> grows food.

We produce so much that if we were to stop sending it over seas, there
would be massive starvations in many countries.......and no, we are not
the only producers, but we get the most produced with the least human
effort.