We don't give food away, except in dire emergencies, we sell it. We might be more popular if we did give food away but knowing the general behavior of human beings I wouldn't bet on it.
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 >> >> > > > > -- 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
