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0 pointsTZubiri4y ago0 comments

So the US would stop producing food and import it instead?

First, why? Second, from an ecological perspective this wouldn't change anything, just shift shit around.

Ridiculous, stop.

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> So the US would stop producing food and import it instead?

Is that how US agricultural interests would react if they had to compete on the free market? They would simply give up and let the land lie fallow?

TZubiriOP4y ago

You just said government would lift tariffs. Most of the land would go to a monoculture for export. The only land that would grow diverse foods for domestic consumption would be to cater to the demand for local consumption. And in the world where government lifted tariffs, we must assume that they acted in representation of the people, so that demand mustn't be so high.

This is pretty basic.

rdtwo4y ago

The food you eat as a wealthy person is probably in a good part produced in other parts of the world due to cheap labor. Sure we provide lots of corn and and soy but a lot of that is for export fuel and meat production

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