Subsidies are made for luxury foods. Luxury foods are not kept in storage houses losing value, luxury foods are sold fresh. If you grew beans, the best protein

Subsidies are made for luxury foods. Luxury foods are not kept in storage houses losing value, luxury foods are sold fresh. If you grew beans, the best protein, calorie per externality (smallest energy required to grow), then you could store it, subsidise it and be really safe with that choice. There is no national security in growing energy expensive foods. If you can't input the energy required to grow it, you're going to need to subsidise it even more in times of crisis. It's just plain simple stupid strategy and is not robust, not antifragile, it's fragile ridiculous strategy. Luxury foods are subsidised because of insane lobbying. That's the only reason. No bean farmer is going to ask for subsidies given that his current demand is no where near beef. Farmer that is working for Tyson Foods is going to ask for subsidies because the business model of Tyson Foods is made just to extract more money from government.