Dag, You need to stick to whales and kiddie porn, or come out and meet a 7 bottom plow in Iowa. We have states here with more acres in corn than you can imagine. I suspect more than all the land that can be farmed in your country. Regards, Bob S.
On 7/23/06, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, if you are feeding a large part of the world with food it really > explains why you are so popular, and why you have the world record in > debt to other countries. > > DagT > > Den 23. jul. 2006 kl. 20.57 skrev P. J. Alling: > > > If your definition is true then you are wrong. The carrying capacity > > for the US is much higher than the current population. We feed a > > large > > part of the rest of the world. The US does import lots of luxury > > foods, > > (any fruit or vegetable out of season is a luxury by the way), which > > require large amounts of human labor. The foods we produce are those > > that can be machine harvested and processed. The difference in labor > > cost in Mexico is the only thing that even makes importing fruits and > > vegetables remotely possible. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> In a message dated 7/23/2006 9:55:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> But even the US isn't overcrowded by any stretch of the imagination. > >> Europe is far more densely populated. You can make a good argument > >> for > >> overpopulation in Europe, but not for the US or (especially) Canada, > >> both of which have very low population density, even if much of the > >> population tends to stuff itself into small areas of high density. > >> > >> -Adam > >> ======= > >> Overpopulation is when the land people live on can no longer > >> support them. > >> The US passed that point a long, long time ago. Need I remind you > >> how the US has > >> drained the third world of resources to keep its population going? > >> Let's just > >> take food. The Central Valley in California used to feed most of > >> the US and > >> other parts of the world as well. I don't know what happened to > >> it, but now > >> about all our produce comes from Mexico. Which does leave one > >> wondering what > >> Mexicans eat. Or where other countries will get their oil etc. > >> when they need it. > >> > >> Get real. > >> > >> Marnie aka Doe > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > When you're worried or in doubt, > > Run in circles, (scream and shout). > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
