Let me make one more point, do any of you know what our national food reserve consist of, would you believe just five days! Thats right, if food could not be delivered, grocery store shelves would be bare in 5 days. Anyone here willing to forgo that?
That is an incorrect statement. I do not know what our national food reserve is but it has nothing to with 5 days. Your statement was premised on no deliveries to grocery stores that has nothing to do with actual food in storage. You have moved a dairy regulation story to some wild universal trucker/railroad strike disaster. Also to other posters there is little if any subsidy of the beef cattle business, farming is however very subsidized. I for one do not believe that if farm subsidies were eliminated food production would stop in this country. Drive into Kansas,Nebraska, Iowa or any other agricultural state and see for yourself. Food prices would vary in a free market but to say we would be at the mercy of foreign imports is silly. Certain products such as fruits and vegetables might well be largely offshore but not staples like grains or soybeans.