Both Canada and the US are major food exporters. In fact the primary source of grain for the world is North America. Both countries export grains and beef by the shipload.
Food imports into Canada and the US are almost entirely luxury foods and foods which won't grow in our climate. Also, to Marnie's claim that teh California Cnetral valley used to feed most of the US is extremely incorrect. The Central Valley was a major source of fruits and vegetables, especially Citrus fruit (Which was exported as far as eastern Canada), but the primary growng regions in North America are Southern ontario & the Eastern Townships, the Ohio and Cumberland valleys along with the grain producing plains and prairies. -Adam DagT 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 >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
