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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 01:26 PM 12/11/2006, Craig Sanders wrote:
> 
>> similarly, if we stopped growing (and worse, subsidising)
>> water-intensive crops like cotton and rice in desert areas, there
>> wouldn't BE a water shortage. (rice! in the desert!  FFS!)
> 
> 
> Exactly. In Phoenix, Arizona, which is in the middle of a desert, much 
> of the public understood and didn't put in Eastern US plants. And there 
> was a shift required in the economy there. Would you believe that TWO of 
> the main economic mainstays of the state were Cotton and Citrus? Both 
> were high irrigation users. And the cotton was pretty bad to boot. 
> Citrus was nice, but wasn't a logical crop for the area at all.
> 
> The other two Cs were Copper and Cattle, in case you were wondering. At 
> least there wasn't the dreaded R....
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you should visit the MIA (around Leeton and griffith, NSW) some 
time....there are rice motifs on the buildings and open irrigation 
channels....

instead of landclearing and destroying the environment further we could 
all do ourselves a favour and eat Kangaroo....which seems 
extraordinarily difficult to buy in Australia.

> Kangaroo meat hops into Russian market
> 
> One new area of growth is kangaroo meat for processing. The composition of Australia's meat exports has considerably changed over the last three years, with kangaroo meat now representing about 45% of Australia's total shipments to Russia. Three years ago it accounted for only 10%. Russia is the major market for Australia's kangaroo meat exports, accounting for over 30% of export consumption.
<http://www.australia-week.ru/eng/business/goods/>

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