the midwest called the "breadbasket of the world".
This is true, but corporate media treats California as if it is, with their drought making lead news almost daily.
We can do without a nationwide salad bar, seeing as how fresh vegetables can be grown locally nearly anywhere (tho not on a gigantic scale) but not without a national breadbasket.
I love the irony: When the industrial food system collapses we will need to revert to "free range, organic" local farming again, where we were before 1945.
I can see the conversion of suburban golf courses and mall parking lots and entire strip malls to farming and ranching. After the panic in the cities dies down, things would smooth out nicely and the food supply would be de-industrialized and more wholesome.
This is true, but corporate media treats California as if it is, with their drought making lead news almost daily.
We can do without a nationwide salad bar, seeing as how fresh vegetables can be grown locally nearly anywhere (tho not on a gigantic scale) but not without a national breadbasket.
I love the irony: When the industrial food system collapses we will need to revert to "free range, organic" local farming again, where we were before 1945.
I can see the conversion of suburban golf courses and mall parking lots and entire strip malls to farming and ranching. After the panic in the cities dies down, things would smooth out nicely and the food supply would be de-industrialized and more wholesome.
I'm kind of thinking the Amish had the right ideas all along.