[Parmy]

That is baloney. Do some more research. Learn what the oldtimers did for our food production. They were the ones who experienced crop failures while trying to feed a growing population.

The problem with all of you today is that you think all the food you eat just magically appears in the supermarket.

[moonhawk]

Economics is the allocation of scarce resources that have alternative uses...Water is a scarce resource.

In a really free market, those resources are used in the most efficient manner, determined by the market, ie those who actually use those resources.. When Govt steps in and “centrally plans” the allocation of resources, they create shortages that would otherwise not exist. Hence California having an abnormal amount of water, inland of course. They don’t grow a lot of food in the Redwoods.

And I doubt you’ve been around much longer than me. I know where food comes from. I was only making a point about free markets to those who sneer at them. The problem is not free markets, it’s that we don’t really have them.