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(2,113 posts)ailsagirl
(23,350 posts)Wouldn't that be GREAT????
dixiechiken1
(2,113 posts)Been completely in love with him since he was Mayor of San Francisco. Smart, well-spoken, progressive... and eye candy to boot! What's not to love, right?
ailsagirl
(23,350 posts)He's the perfect governor for California-- he's so much on our side (remember Arno?)!!!
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Live in the Bay Area, so have been following him and Sen Harris for a very long time. Theyre making us proud 🙂
ailsagirl
(23,350 posts)dhill926
(16,751 posts)14 years ago.
A belated welcome!!
dhill926
(16,751 posts)Warpy
(112,767 posts)Otherwise, developers are just going to increase sprawl into dangerous fire zones. They won't rethink the architecture, either.
hunter
(38,707 posts)... currently used by those industries.
For example, California currently exports alfalfa to Saudi Arabia to feed cows there.
Massive industrial storehouses line the southern end of town, packed with thousands upon thousands of stacks of alfalfa bales ready to be fed to dairy cows but not cows in Californias Central Valley or Montanas rangelands.
Instead, the alfalfa will be fed to cows in Saudi Arabia.
The storehouses belong to Fondomonte Farms, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia-based company Almarai one of the largest food production companies in the world. The company sells milk, powdered milk and packaged items such as croissants, strudels and cupcakes in supermarkets and corner stores throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and in specialty grocers throughout the US.
Each month, Fondomonte Farms loads the alfalfa on to hulking metal shipping containers destined to arrive 24 days later at a massive port stationed on the Red Sea, just outside King Abdullah City in Saudi Arabia.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-water-drought-scarce-saudi-arabia
Beef and dairy do have a place in land management strategies, cows grazing on green and golden hillsides, but most of the beef and dairy industry doesn't look like that. It's factory farms, cows crowded onto great mountains of shit eating silage grown with scarce water.
Huge factory slaughterhouses are some of the worst places to work, and the work is often done by undocumented workers who are frequently abused. When they can no longer do the work, or they begin to organize and complain about working conditions, they are simply replaced.
Warpy
(112,767 posts)but I see your point for a lot of areas, Costa Rica in particular has been devastated as rainforest has been cut down to provide pasturage for beef cattle and they're not alone.
Where there are farmers, there will be cash crops. A lot of farming in California might soon become unfeasible if we get many more years like this one, a heat dome lasting for months parked over the west.