Farming is massively subsidized because food insecurity is one of the fastest ways to collapse a nation. It's in the interest of the country to put a thumb on the scale of food prices to dampen out the boom-bust nature of agriculture.
In exchange farmers give up the ability to set prices. If farmers were allowed to set their own prices shit would get wild in drought or flood years.
I don't understand why food can't be subject to market forces like everything else. It's not like we will really run out. There are enough cans. You'd just have shortages of particular things. There is more to the policy than security for us.
Farming is massively subsidized because food insecurity is one of the fastest ways to collapse a nation. It's in the interest of the country to put a thumb on the scale of food prices to dampen out the boom-bust nature of agriculture.
In exchange farmers give up the ability to set prices. If farmers were allowed to set their own prices shit would get wild in drought or flood years.
I don't understand why food can't be subject to market forces like everything else. It's not like we will really run out. There are enough cans. You'd just have shortages of particular things. There is more to the policy than security for us.
That is such a slack jawed take on the topic that I'm actually in awe.