Farm country feeds America, but try buying groceries there

Re:Farm country feeds America, but try buying groceries there by eranima on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:21PM (#21456245)

I'm from upstate NY, and the loss of "breadbasket" status was great for the local ecology. When we were the breadbasket of the country (when the country was much younger), all the forests were cut down and erosion and water quality were a much bigger issue.

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Re:Farm country feeds America, but try buying groceries there by megablast on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @09:49PM (#21459294)

Did that just move the same problems somewhere else?

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Re:Farm country feeds America, but try buying groceries there by eranima on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:35PM (#21466923)

Kinda. The breadbasket became the Great Plains, which resulted in the destruction of that habitat. The question is, is it worse to replace forest with farmland or plains with farmland?

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