What percentage of the food that China needs to feed its own population is actually grown in China? We grow enough food to feed all Americans and others besides.
We grow enough food to feed all Americans and others besides.
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That used to be true decades ago, but now the US is a net importer of food. Like manufacturing we got rid of most family farms and ranches using zoning, property and inheritance taxes, ESA regulations, and many other laws. The same applies to commercial fishing, which used to be the third largest source in the nation’s balance of trade income.
We are now a service and software economy. Food is grown and packaged in the rear of grocery stores. Only Facebook and Google are the mentors of the young.
China owns so many farms and food companies in America, and they continue to buy more.
Do you really think that’s true? I don’t. Almost all of our food supply is now imported, I don’t even think most of the meat in grocery stores is processed here. There was a time when stores had to post where food came from, but now they rarely do. But if read packages- almost everything is imported- even fresh and frozen fruit and produce. This us a very precarious place for a country to be in- relying on other countries for our basic needs.