Because food is a matter of national security in this cruel world? For instance, a nation that is totally or even largely dependent upon imported food or imported inputs (e.g., fuels, fertilizers, pesticides, etc.) for food production and distribution is vulnerable to foreign powers' use of economic warfare (like trade embargoes) on it. -- Yoshie
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Precisely the argument the citizens of Norway use to defend subsidies after they were nearly starved to death by the Nazis.
All that homegrown food would rot in the face of an oil embargo.
Doug
