HeyBub wrote:
Robert Green wrote:
California is to our
food chain what the ocean is to Japan. I believe the revolts we're
seeing in Arabia are more about the rising cost of food than
politics.
Correct. The top agricultural products of California a
* Tree nuts - $3.1 billion
* Fruits & fruit products - $3 billion
* Vegetables - $2 billion
* Dairy - $838 million
It is not for nothing that California is known as "The land of fruits
and nuts."
There you go with erronious data. The largest cash crop of California is pot.
(13.8 B)
http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr2/cashcrops.html
So much for "the land of fruits and nuts". :-)
Think maybe we ought to legalize and tax it?