> Hopefully this may incentivize people to be a bit more self-sufficient This has nothing to do with "people". Securing the food supply is a matter of national

> Hopefully this may incentivize people to be a bit more self-sufficient This has nothing to do with "people". Securing the food supply is a matter of national security, which is why such a shortage of labour should have never been allowed to even happen. The correct way to go about this would have been subsidized pay for local farmhands, a directive that a given / high percentage of food crop must be preserved at any cost and regulation that subsidies that already go to agriculture do not go into profits but actually trickle down.