Fri, Oct-25-19, 13:35
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Senior Member
Posts: 19,218
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Plan: atkins, carnivore 2023
Stats: 200/211/163
BF:
Progress: -30%
Location: Massachusetts
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob-a-rama
When considering health care costs, in the long run sugar is probably not cheap food.
When Castro took over Cuba, the sugar companies relocated to Florida. Florida has the right kind of climate, but not the right soil and other growing conditions.
Here in Florida, "Big Sugar" runs the state government to the near-death of the Everglades. I have witness a 99% decrease in wildlife in my lifetime due to the water demands and polluted output from the 3 Big Sugar companies.
Mrazek pond has about 40 acres visible from the road. In the 1970s, when the mosquito fish hatched one could stand on the shore and look out. There would be more feathers than water showing, it was noisy, it stunk of birds (a good stink IMHO), and there were plenty who couldn't even get in until another bird left. There must have been more than 2,000 birds in there, herons, egrets, woodstorks, spoonbills, limpkins, stilts, avocets and so on.
In 2019 I've never seen more than a dozen birds at a time in there.
It's a pity.
So for me, it's not only the health care cost, but the environmental cost.
Bob
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Hear ya!!
Saw a program last week about a huge inland lake in Ukraine that was a source of free fish keeping a whole fleet in business plus the fisheries. It is empty-- with a few ships grounded. All the water supporting the lake was redirected to new cotton fields.
We are just trashing this earth.
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