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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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