Drought conditions reduce Australia's Sheeps numbers

@cherokeepatti Now that is interesting. If I was setting about undermining a the economy of a nation quietly, driving up the cost of food to the average person would be one way. Also fuel. Think about that a moment.

@whowasthatmaskedman Well they are pulling some shady shit. The media is reporting what they want us to believe. Smithfield Farms "donating" 10 million pounds of protein, for example, was a touchy-feely little news clip that I saw on morning news on CBS. Makes them look good, doesn't it? They gave no details at all, I'd assumed prisons. But maybe they are "donating"errr sending that meat to China. I chatted with a Chinese woman about 10 years ago. She told me that China was getting "rich" and that they had buffet restaurants and that the Chinese (some) were getting fat. I thought YIKES because they are the most populated country & when something like that starts there they will drive up the demand for meat. The Aussies saying that China is trying to punish them by buying 25% less beef. Well the Chinese are still going to eat meat so they are probably taking it from the ranches they own in the USA, beef, pork, chicken, etc. I just wish they'd keep their nasty farm-raised fish and eat it themselves instead of importing it here. It is heavily polluted after having been fed hog shit from huge hog farms and those hogs were fed chicken shit from huge poultry farms. No wonder the flu originates and changes annually and travels around the world. A lady I know on Twitter told me that her husband died from eating a particular type of fish imported from China, it was heavily polluted and the Chinese imported it to Australia.

@cherokeepatti I dont place much credence on the imported fish story on Twitter.. As a relatively unpopulace country those things tend to make news here. A couple of froxen food Salmonella outbreaks went back to China as a source. But nothing else.
Certainly, within my field of knowledge China is quite adept at playing a long game for economic control of regions, via the "one belt one road" aid program, which can leave small vulnerable nations in their debt and reliant on China, having to give up fishing rights, shipping lanes and access to ports and infrastructure. I dont see Chinas work in the US as a long stetch from this.

@cherokeepatti This fire season, 125,000 sheep were killed

@cherokeepatti @Gusman And a ton of pasture, as poor as it was with the droughts

@whowasthatmaskedman Looking good for lambing season in many areas

@Gusman About time the farmers got a break....No subsidies here.

@whowasthatmaskedman Last couple of seasons the wool price has been hitting record prices

@Gusman I personally love wool, but most people don't even wear it anymore. At least in the developed world. It's kinda sad.

@MethDozer I'm guilty of that.
I think this winter I might buy a couple of Aussie Woolen Jumpers to help the farmers.

@Gusman its good stuff. Breaths, doesn't hold water, sustainable, doesn't pollute or rely on petroleum.