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by seanmcdirmid 2926 days ago
But no one really depends on us. A lot of what we export is used as animal feed.
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animal feed is used to make more animals which humans eat. Im not saying I know that this would affect China for sure, but you cant take a major producer out of a market or increase their price substantially and expect no effect
Mexico and Canada would be hurt much more, prices would go up, meat would be more expensive in China, but...global starvation wouldn’t occur. There are plenty of net surplus exporters out there, and what they add are mostly luxuries.