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[tomohawk]

I am all for farmers cutting off food supply to urban areas.

Living in urban areas where there is no place to grow food - food should be in short supply there.

And while we're at it, oil rich parts of the country need to stop supplying parts of the country where oil is scarce. Do you know expensive and unsafe it is to transport fuel?

We're all in this together, and different areas have different strengths.

[bsder → tomohawk]

> I am all for farmers cutting off food supply to urban areas.

You might want to rethink this. The cities wouldn't even notice.

Most cities have quite useful ports and can get food from elsewhere.

Said farmers would now have no domestic market and have pissed off their gateways to the non-domestic market.

In addition, the cities have very little love for the current crop of "farmers" as mostly they are servants of the big agribusinesses.

[JetSpiegel → bsder]

> Most cities have quite useful ports and can get food from elsewhere.

Not for the same price. Either more money is spent on food or some city dwellers starve / overthrow the government.

[evgen → tomohawk]

Sounds great, and all of the urban areas can import their food from places where it is cheaper to grow and where they do not need to pay subsidies to farmers in the form of price floors and subsidies not to grow. You could empty rural America and let it go back to prairie and the cities would do just fine.