SocraticGadfly: U.S: Net food importer

November 06, 2006

U.S: Net food importer

Yes, you read right.

Due in part to globalization, I’m sure, and in part to Americans continuing to eat beyond their means, we are a net food importer, as the Sierra Club reports.
Last year, for the first time in U.S. history, we imported more food from other countries than we ate from our own fields, streams, orchards, and bays.

It doesn’t get much more graphic than that, sadly. Unfortunately, most of what we do grow here is flavorless, fiberless, sugar-laden crap forced on the country by Big Ag.

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