I don't like that argument. By that logic, we shouldn't import microprocessors, steel, oil, or a hundred other things, either. However, that makes little econom

I don't like that argument. By that logic, we shouldn't import microprocessors, steel, oil, or a hundred other things, either. However, that makes little economic sense. In addition, the United States is an ally of most of the rest of the world, so the chances that we will ever be cut off from all food sources is negligible, unless higher-ups in the government were planning to start a war with the entire planet (which seems possible lately). Also, the government isn't subsidizing farms to bring up our agricultural production to national self-sufficiency levels, but it is massively subsidizing them to make the US a huge food exporting country. Our farm policy doesn't fit the pattern of a program that has been logically designed for a purpose. Rather, it fits the pattern of entrenched producers influencing legislation for their own gain.