I agree the US can produce plenty of food for exports. Food costs money and the poor have been hit much harder by this recession than the middle class. Americ

I agree the US can produce plenty of food for exports. Food costs money and the poor have been hit much harder by this recession than the middle class. American cities require hourly supplies to be sustained. If something disrupted the distribution of food American cites would become mini-hells. Remember hurricane Catrina's aftermath? (Rising food prices sparked the Arab Spring) edit: 50-million Americans, including nine million children, will go to bed tonight without having had enough to eat http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-report/err141.aspx http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-r...