BREAKING: Mexico Leader Denies Trump’s Migration Victory Again – Here’s Her Response
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The government realized people would rebel if they couldn't afford good food. That's why they started promoting grains and seed oils and vilifying meat and dairy after US went off the gold standard. Laid out in a book called Fiat Food. They propped up the shitty foods so that people wouldn't notice they couldn't afford good foods. Government doesn't subsidize healthy foods, just the ones that keep you sick. I would buy your argument if they were subsidizing small organic farmers and looking out for your health but all it does is benefit Big Ag.
Then the country has all this super cheap shitty corn so they export it and wreck other countries small farm culture.
Okay then. We stop subsidizing the corn, now what do all the dairy cows and all the chickens eat? Do you really think that small organic farmers are going to be able to provide enough meat and Grains and vegetables and Dairy to feed a country of 370 million people? Decentralized agriculture could easily end up being a logistical nightmare. These Farm Subs these are the only reason we're able to have the huge grocery stores that everybody shops at. With the number of people that we have to feed, local agriculture becomes less feasible because of the issue of scale. The only way we're able to feed a large number of people is to industrialize our agriculture. To industrialize our agriculture requires government subsidies. Agriculture is vulnerable to Natural phenomena and it requires something to lean on in case some shit happens. If that means that our cows are eating shitty corn and we're exporting corn to other countries than so the fuck what? They can always put a tariff on it and try to ramp up their own production domestically. How are we going to conduct a military campaign when we have to Wrangle a million different farmers in order to get the food to feed our troops? Do we just go back to the way Wars used to be fought and we just have our soldiers scavenge off of the local population like a horde of locusts?
It won't happen overnight but as a nation we're sick and obese for a reason. If small farms can start to compete with big ag then there's incentive for them to grow and more and more will pop up because they are profitable. Instead of centralizing food to 3 or 4 big companies we decentralize. Basically decentralizing and giving power back to the communities is key to everything.