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[–] 63 points 5 months ago (9 children)

...unless there's a profit to be made. Hype rice into the next superfood and watch people grow it in the desert.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    People (by which I mean extremely large agro-businesses) are growing soybeans and corn in the desert because it's the highest economic yield per acre grown. Almost nothing competes with it. So it's not just that a profit has to be made, but also that a larger profit than corn or soybeans has to be made. Which is unlikely, given how much bio-engineering and infrastructure capital has gone into both of those crops.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    If Americans ever embrace rice I'll eat 4 pairs of vintage high top Doc Martens

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    US produces something like 7 million tonnes of rice every year, mostly for internal consumption. It's not anywhere near China or India, but the US does already eat a shitload of rice.

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