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Let's open an history book an review what happens when the government controlls the food production.

• bluntfang 7y ago
  Sure! Corn is in everything! There's an obesity epidemic. Diabetes is effecting everyone's life. etc.
• dragonwriter 7y ago
  Er, the results on that are rather mixed and ambiguous and depend more on other factors; but then again, controlling food production and distribution was the main role of most governments in most of history; it wasn't really until the agricultural revolutions that were a key factor in the feudal economic system starting to be replaced with capitalism that some governments could really afford (even in the short-term) not to make that their primary concern most of the time, and even now and even among advanced liberal Democratic “capitalist” (really, mixed economies) states, guiding food production and distribution remains a major role of government, even if the means used involve markets with government intervention through price controls, production subsidies, consumer (means-tested) subsidies, direct government purchase and distribution, aggressive negotiation of agricultural trade deals, etc., etc., etc., rather than transparent direct state direction.
  • nickik 7y ago
    > controlling food production and distribution was the main role of most governments in most of history; I would say this is simply wrong. Government often capture food production and use it to enrich themselves. Some historical places certainty had a function in distribution as well but this is not the common case. The waste majority of history, government were primary involved in food production and distribution beyond capturing as much as possible and distribution it to its own armies. Most of history food for the most part was produced and consumed fairly locally without much involvement of government.