12 Aug '09 19:35>2 edits
Originally posted by utherpendragonum, you missed the point.
a few missing weeks of strawberries is a bit of a understatement dont you think?
[b]Unemployment rates are now 40% because of the water being shut off to farmers. Hundreds of acres of crops are now dead. 1 million acres of fields and orchards also have no aboveground water supply. People have to go to food banks for food. Fruits and vegetable prices have skyrocketed in central California.[/b]
People are not unemployed because the water was shut off. They are out of work because people can make do without year round strawberrys, just like humans have done for thousands of years.
In Canada, our tobacco fields were closed because people stopped smoking. This put thousands of people out of work. Should the government have promoted smoking to keep these people employed??