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jdp111 t1_jeb71ox wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in A new report found that Mass. has the highest GDP per capita in the country and is among the states least dependent on federal dollars. by truthseeeker

They contribute nothing to the economy? Holy cringe. I for one enjoy having food to eat, among other agricultural products.

I don't like their politics either but this is some next level tribalism.

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AboyNamedBort t1_jebq5pc wrote

California is the number one provider of food. I'm fine never eating anything with corn syrup from the red states again.

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jdp111 t1_jebsggl wrote

Not enough to feed the whole country. And it's mainly fruit, vegetables and nuts. If you think we can all just survive off of Californias food you're delusional.

It's also not great for the environment shipping it all the way across the nation.

But yes the red states only produce corn syrup nothing else.

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DJScrubatires t1_jebunid wrote

We also import a lot of our food from Canada too

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jdp111 t1_jebw5ir wrote

We also export a lot of food to Canada. It's roughly a wash. Some years they are the net exporter some years we are the net exporter.

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Miami_Vice-Grip t1_jebw7ak wrote

I mean we probably could. Survive != over eating like 5k calories a day. The average American diet would have to shrink and CA would have to stop exporting crops but it could hypothetically be done. CA already provides like 45% of fruit and veg, but also exports like 50% of what it produces. So combine all that with the food we import from other countries and I think we'd be ok.

If, of course, we could actually distribute the food equitably. The fact that we haven't beaten food insecurity in this country is absurd and a disgusting failure of governance generally. But that's a problem in all states

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warlocc_ t1_jebsf17 wrote

"Where do you think the food we buy comes from?"

"The grocery store."

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