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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Hypothetically, if all major sources of food production were imported from other countries, that would be a very dangerous position for the US to be in, correct?
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That position can only occur if America becomes so anti-innovative as to make food imports essential. America's agricultural industry is due to American innovations. After WWII, European farmers were brought to America - to even work for six months on American farms under the Marshall Plan - to learn why WWII Americans were such productive farmers. Dutch particularly prospered by learning from these innovative techniques.
Innovation means innovators must keep innovating every year. Otherwise countries with cheaper labor get those customers.
Putting up tariffs and restritions only for national security causes the anti-innovators to run those businesses - farms or factories. Greatest threat to American agriculture is to protect it and therefore stifle risk takers - the source of innovation. Don't tell that to politicians who are purchased by Archer Daniels Midland. Such politiicians know where their daily $50,000+ comes from.