Re:California's dry season is turning into a permanent state...
by jeffbee on Sunday August 15, 2021 @12:38PM
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California totally dominates the fruit market. Georgia might call itself the Peach State but California produces 20 times more peaches. California produces 90% of the nation's grapes and twenty times more wine than the second-place state. It's not necessarily that you couldn't grow these elsewhere, but it is a path-dependent process by which government subsidies have pushed all this production to California and killed the industries elsewhere. Changing this so fruits and vegetables are widely produced in every state would involve an abrupt discontinuity that entrenched California growers are sure to oppose.
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Re:California's dry season is turning into a permanent state...
by throwaway894345 on Sunday August 15, 2021 @02:14PM
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Interesting. This seems believable. Supply chains don’t turn on a dime and unsustainable farmers will always support the unsustainable practices on which they depend, but we should start making moves in the right direction now.
> Changing this so fruits and vegetables are widely produced in every state
This isn’t the requirement. The requirement is that we source sustainably grown food. That can come from Mexico or the lusher regions of the US or wherever. I don’t think we need to grow oranges and lemons in Alaska or corn in Hawaii, we just need to be able to get sustainably-grown food to those places.
Re:California's dry season is turning into a permanent state...
by hindsightbias on Sunday August 15, 2021 @01:50PM
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As long as the other states’ diet can be 100% corn based, they’ll be fine.