Not just their food, all their energy and raw materials too.
The fools in the cities have no clue how dependent they are on the “hicks” they like to mock. The cities would be devastated inside a week if the hicks went on strike. Not so much the other way around...
Left and right meet.
I tell you that the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
Willian Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold" speech, July 9, 1896