Comments on: Nine out of ten Japanese prefer pasta http://www.adekun.com/blog/nine-out-of-ten-japanese-prefer-pasta Enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of first-time parenthood. Progress on the organic vegetable garden and other ramblings of a gaijin in Japan's least populous prefecture. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:46:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: adekun http://www.adekun.com/blog/nine-out-of-ten-japanese-prefer-pasta/comment-page-1#comment-291 adekun Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:31:22 +0000 http://blog.adekun.com/?p=155#comment-291 A nice pun. No idea about the uranium mining, surprised at that and your mention TopVeg (was it really said?). Food and water are already a commodities, what next? A nice pun. No idea about the uranium mining, surprised at that and your mention TopVeg (was it really said?). Food and water are already a commodities, what next?

]]> By: KATE http://www.adekun.com/blog/nine-out-of-ten-japanese-prefer-pasta/comment-page-1#comment-275 KATE Sat, 17 May 2008 00:07:24 +0000 http://blog.adekun.com/?p=155#comment-275 I have never even heard a single Australian politician mention our self-sufficiency rating. I doubt anyone has ever calculated one. But we have mountains of resources (mostly underground in the form of metals, oil, gas, etc etc) and agriculture so it would probably seem good, on paper. But the problems are deeper than the mines! Do you like the pun?? Food security is my main concern and a lack of water is at the root of it - or rather the fact that water is being used for the wrong things, such as uranium mining (the biggest user in the world) followed by cotton (grown on cheap, dry land by pumping extreme amounts of water into dams the size of Sydney harbour, stopping the flow of whole rivers.)So food is being shipped in from China. Completely crazy. I was in Japan in 1979 for 6 months and I never even saw pasta or non-Japanese food! Still, then there were Y250 to AUS$1. Things change! Maybe one day you will have a food-growers/bloggers get-together in Japan! I have never even heard a single Australian politician mention our self-sufficiency rating. I doubt anyone has ever calculated one. But we have mountains of resources (mostly underground in the form of metals, oil, gas, etc etc) and agriculture so it would probably seem good, on paper. But the problems are deeper than the mines! Do you like the pun?? Food security is my main concern and a lack of water is at the root of it - or rather the fact that water is being used for the wrong things, such as uranium mining (the biggest user in the world) followed by cotton (grown on cheap, dry land by pumping extreme amounts of water into dams the size of Sydney harbour, stopping the flow of whole rivers.)So food is being shipped in from China. Completely crazy.

I was in Japan in 1979 for 6 months and I never even saw pasta or non-Japanese food! Still, then there were Y250 to AUS$1. Things change!

Maybe one day you will have a food-growers/bloggers get-together in Japan!

]]> By: TopVeg http://www.adekun.com/blog/nine-out-of-ten-japanese-prefer-pasta/comment-page-1#comment-276 TopVeg Wed, 14 May 2008 08:52:17 +0000 http://blog.adekun.com/?p=155#comment-276 It is hard to see what the politicians are thinking of - when food is such a basic necessity. With Japan’s food self sufficiency falling to 39% & the UK government telling its farmers that they are only needed to keep the country pretty as we can import all we need, one cannot wonder. It is hard to see what the politicians are thinking of - when food is such a basic necessity. With Japan’s food self sufficiency falling to 39% & the UK government telling its farmers that they are only needed to keep the country pretty as we can import all we need, one cannot wonder.

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