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> Note: farm subsidies may well be corrupt and wasteful but they exist for national security reasons. A country that can't feed itself is completely vulnerable
by naringas 6y ago
> Note: farm subsidies may well be corrupt and wasteful but they exist for national security reasons. A country that can't feed itself is completely vulnerable in times of conflict.
It's not that different: "news subsidies may well be corrupt and wasteful but they exist for national security reasons. A country that can't agree on what's happening cannot agree on what to do, therefore it's completely vulnerable..."
- triceratops 6y agoThat may be true.
- a1369209993 6y agoExcept that it's difficult for a farm to actively reduce a country's ability to feed itself, since everyone mostly agrees on what constitutes diseased or poisoned food, and can recognize such, by people getting sick if nothing else.