[jakeonthemove]

Food is so important, yet so cheap that farmers can not sustain themselves. When people really start starving, food costs will rise and farmers will be the new rich.

There is no overpopulation. Overpopulation of urban centers, yes, overpopulation of useable land - no.

We'll have trouble sustaining the current growth, and the way money are spent on useless and short term stuff is alarming, but that will most likely lead to another recession instead of collapse.

That's my opinion on just these matters - the article is a great piece of information that needs to be read by everyone.

[euroclydon]

Of all U.S. government policies that stand little chance of being reversed, the cheap food policy stand tall. As Bob Marley said, "A hungry mob is an angry mob." Nothing threatens the status quo more than the unavailability of food. Plus, individual farmers have little power. They have always relied on government to prevent them from being completely impoverished by the distributors, or in more modern times, by the seed technology companies.

[jinushaun]

Let's not all forgot the international food related riots a few years back.

[JoeAltmaier]

I've heard that Iowa can feed two United States (if we were content to eat only corn and beans). SO agriculture can be very powerful. If necessary we could make huge changes in production in a year (growing season) and respond to pressure.

Its politics alone that determine who starves and who enjoys the benefits of technological society.