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Its funny, I've lived most of my life not too far from fields growing food. But when I go to the grocery store, most of the produce there is imported. In 2019,
by annoyingnoob 6y ago
Its funny, I've lived most of my life not too far from fields growing food. But when I go to the grocery store, most of the produce there is imported.
In 2019, California agriculture produced about $50B in receipts, with almost $22B in exports. Our water goes with those exports too.
- f6v 6y ago> Our water goes with those exports too. Now, that kind of nationalism is very uncalifornian.
- annoyingnoob 6y agoNot following you. We've had drought in CA for years now. There are fights over where water goes, and a lot goes to farming. Then a bunch of those farm products are exported. Do we focus on serving the people in CA or the exports from CA when we talk about water regulation? My original point is that even though we produce a crazy amount of farmed goods in CA, we still import things that we grow here and export. Always seems odd to me to see produce from Ecuador in the grocery store when I can buy better quality down the road from a local farm stand.
- colinmhayes 6y agoThe Ecuadorian produce is cheaper. If you want local produce buy it from the stand. The water rights stuff is pretty messed up anyway, because the us is essentially stealing water that used to go to Mexico.