XPost: bc.politics, can.politics   
   From: Panca@nyet.ca   
      
   >> On 2014-10-14 04:26:27 +0000, gordo said:   
   >>   
   >>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:19:30 -0700, Alan Baker    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 2014-10-12 19:56:26 +0000, (?_?) said:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> A 34% increase in prices for fresh foods.  And it's California's   
   >>>>> persistent trend to droughts that is behind them.   
   >>>>> ____________________________________________   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> CBC News Posted: Oct 10, 201   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> B.C. food prices expected to rise dramatically   
   >>>>> Effects of extended California drought about to push up cost of fruits   
   >>>>> and vegetables   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> An extended drought in California is at the root of warnings that B.C.   
   >>>>> is about to face skyrocketing produce prices.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> A report released Friday predicts the price of fruits and vegetables   
   >>>>> could rise as much as 34 per cent in the next year, hitting the   
   >>>>> pocketbooks of British Columbians hard.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Wake up Call: California Drought and B.C.'s Food Security was   
   >>>>> commissioned by Vancity credit union and looks at the effects of a   
   >>>>> persistent drought in California over the past three years with, the   
   >>>>> report says, the past 30 months being the driest on record.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> British Columbians could be paying $7 a pound for broccoli in five   
   >>>>> years, a new report warns.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The impact will be felt keenly in B.C., because of the province's over   
   >>>>> reliance on imported food, with a concomitant reduction in crops   
   >>>>> produced here. Vegetable crops in B.C. have, the report says, dropped   
   >>>>> by 20.4 per cent since 1991.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "The trend in two important staple vegetable crops, broccoli and   
   >>>>> lettuce, showed decrease in production of 52 per cent in the case of   
   >>>>> broccoli and 34 per cent in the case of lettuce between 1996 and 2011,"   
   >>>>> the report notes.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "In 2010, 67 per cent of B.C. vegetable imports came from the U.S.,   
   >>>>> over half of which is produced in California."   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Prices for broccoli and lettuce are predicted to jump by 22 per cent   
   >>>>> and 34 per cent respectively this year.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> "If these trends continue," the report says, "paying $7 for a crown of   
   >>>>> broccoli or $3.50 for a head of lettuce could be a reality in the next   
   >>>>> five years."   
      
   Alan Baker  wrote:   
   >>>> "If"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "could be"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "five years"   
   >>>   
   >>> Did you have anything to dispute the fact that the drought in   
   >>> California is  having and will continue to have an influence on food   
   >>> prices in Canada. Did you think that the price should be exactly $7.00   
   >>> a crown? What was your reason for posting "If,could be,five years"?   
      
   Alan Baker  again:   
   >> I think the post is fear-mongering at it's finest.   
      
      
   On 10/14/2014 12:15 AM, gordo wrote:   
   > Food prices going up is not fear mongering. Food prices have already   
   > gone up. Producing our own food was the message. It works out like   
   > this. Global climate change has caused places around the world to not   
   > be reliable sources of food. Local food production *could*  provide   
   > food. It could but maybe not.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> The drought is having an effect on food prices; that's true.   
   >   
   > Yes   
      
   Alan Baker  again:   
   >> Whether it will continue to have such an effect would depend a lot on   
   >> whether or not the drought goes on or not...   
   >>   
   >> ...and that's a bold prediction for 5 years in the future.   
      
      
   On 10/14/2014 12:15 AM, gordo wrote:   
   > The thing you should be worried about is if a tornado chooses your   
   > home in your trailer park. Well actually the tornados get rid of the   
   > whole trailer park , hospitals and schools now days.   
      
   California is going into its FIFTH drought year now.  What makes the article a   
   "bold prediction"?   
   More like a continuation of same . . . .   
      
   And the BC government is about to flood 5,550 hectares of arable land to make   
   way for a mega dam.   
   The water will be needed by the expansion of the LNG projects which will see   
   our natural gas exported to foreign countries.   
      
   What a trade off . . .    ever-more precious arable land so that foreign   
   companies can make money in BC - (along with the usual paltry royalties that   
   will flow to the provincial coffers).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)