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by mey 656 days ago
Is there a list of food reserves that each country maintains? I feel like that would be an interesting/funny cultural insight. Like the US Cheese Stockpile or the Canada Maple Syrup Reserve.
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Gotta include the at-home stocks which is going to be harder/more variable to measure.

Though if you have diversity in your crop production, usually when one thing does badly, something else does better, especially if your country is big.

When COVID first hit, I did an estimate of how much food I had on hand (without even intentionally trying to stockpile) and I figure I could live 6-8 months without leaving.

US cheese stockpile? More like US burgers stockpile :)
TIL we have a cheese stockpile. I would not have guessed that.