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> 2. The US begins importing most of its food from elsewhere Gonna stop you there. This wouldn't happen, because the US has plenty of growing acreage and plent
by TulliusCicero 5y ago
> 2. The US begins importing most of its food from elsewhere
Gonna stop you there. This wouldn't happen, because the US has plenty of growing acreage and plenty of demand. The farming industry doesn't need subsidies, and removing them would affect total output only slightly on average.
Now, if we were more like Japan and had issues with enough space for farming, then yeah I'd agree with you.
- ungamedplayer 5y agoUnless medium to large scale farming in the US is significantly different than the rest of the world, Land availability and demand are only tiny parts of the puzzle and not even the hardest issues to solve when farming. The need for immediate scale for any kind of shortage is guaranteed to cause significant shortages + massive price hikes starvation in the short term.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoLol, just how big do you think the farm subsidies are? This is some big-time Clancychat you're throwing out there.
- ungamedplayer 5y agoLol, i'm not talking about scale changes, not subsidies! loloolol