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NIcholas Harpole bends space's avatar

You may have read Cadillac Desert. Alfalfa is unprofitable without free water and should never have been grown in places where water is rationed. Some farmers, like some commercial fisherman, are unwilling to accept the long term necessity of conservation. Here in the eastern Sierra/western Mojave there still alfalfa growers drawing down our finite ancient aquifer.

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DDB9000's avatar

Uh, why would IT workers (assuming you mean information technology) be involved here? I got that the original post was referring to "hicks from the sticks", not them.

And for what it's worth, diabetes can be genetic. I got it late in life, as did my mother (who died of cancer, not diabetes), as did her father (my grandfather), who got it when he was 90 (he died at 95). Point being that one CAN eat healthily and still get diabetes, or cancer, or have a heart attack, etc., anyway.

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