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Agreed.  Things like coffee and tea have been long-distance export items for thousands of years, and there's no reason that can't continue.  Wine and liquor as well.  Sugar too, I suppose, although we definitely ought to cut back on sugar consumption in general.
by Zwackus on Fri May 30th, 2008 at 05:47:05 AM EST
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In Europe we could go back from cane sugar to beetroot sugar (though when discussing biofuels afew mentioned that beetroot cultivation has a high impact on water and soil resources).

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 30th, 2008 at 06:07:37 AM EST
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