[deleted] t1_jeb0dgf wrote
jdp111 t1_jeb71ox wrote
They contribute nothing to the economy? Holy cringe. I for one enjoy having food to eat, among other agricultural products.
I don't like their politics either but this is some next level tribalism.
AboyNamedBort t1_jebq5pc wrote
California is the number one provider of food. I'm fine never eating anything with corn syrup from the red states again.
jdp111 t1_jebsggl wrote
Not enough to feed the whole country. And it's mainly fruit, vegetables and nuts. If you think we can all just survive off of Californias food you're delusional.
It's also not great for the environment shipping it all the way across the nation.
But yes the red states only produce corn syrup nothing else.
DJScrubatires t1_jebunid wrote
We also import a lot of our food from Canada too
jdp111 t1_jebw5ir wrote
We also export a lot of food to Canada. It's roughly a wash. Some years they are the net exporter some years we are the net exporter.
Miami_Vice-Grip t1_jebw7ak wrote
I mean we probably could. Survive != over eating like 5k calories a day. The average American diet would have to shrink and CA would have to stop exporting crops but it could hypothetically be done. CA already provides like 45% of fruit and veg, but also exports like 50% of what it produces. So combine all that with the food we import from other countries and I think we'd be ok.
If, of course, we could actually distribute the food equitably. The fact that we haven't beaten food insecurity in this country is absurd and a disgusting failure of governance generally. But that's a problem in all states
warlocc_ t1_jebsf17 wrote
"Where do you think the food we buy comes from?"
"The grocery store."
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