• Kes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    Food production is one of the very few things the US government has been handling well. We give out tens of billions in subsidies to farmers every year to artificially inflate the food supply and have a nationwide SNAP program to help low income families afford food. As a result, we produce far more food than we actually need and far more than we would in a free market, allowing the US to be a major exporter of food globally and ensuring we have enough redundancy built into our food supply that the US will be the last country to starve in a famine

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      11 months ago

      Remember that time they had too much milk and were like “Lets make cheese!” And then they had too much cheese so they out it in a cave and slowly gave it away for decades.