why is it important for the USA and any country to be able to produce its own food ???

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is being able to produce our own food important during war time ???

should we relly in other countries to produce our food ???

janet w the link is important to see this could be the future .

Answer 1

Not only is it important to grow our own food, we must take it out of the hands of agribusinesses and into local production and even community gardens.

Food from other countries has often been heavily sprayed and in some cases radiated. When food has to travel 3000 miles across the country this is a huge waste of gas. It also means the food we eat will probably be picked before it is ripe and gassed or some other type of artificial ripening. This may be dangerous and also diminishes nutrients.

The longer produce sits, the more disintegration of nutrients, so the less healthy the food is. Local growing supports local economies and the food is fresher as well as using less energy (in gas).
Even better is growing local produce without pesticides or herbicides (organic produce)--better for the environment and for your health.Best of all are community gardens using a bartering system that can give you live foods and high nutrition, freshness,
and variety. Children who participate in growing the foods and eating them learn to love healthy foods.

This should also be done in schools and the food cooked and prepared by students while doing lessons plans related to the topic. This will help to reduce the obesity rate and give youngster good starts to lifelong healthy eating. Things like cooperative farms could be joined to produce fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, eggs, and meats...making this a family activity and also increasing local production of foods and much healthier food which eliminates the tremendous damage to the environment that is caused by factory farms like Ohio's buckeye egg farm which its many millions of chickens breeding swarms of flies in the community and horrible smells from massive amounts of manure. Chickens, etc could freely range eating a normal diet and reducing animal cruelNot only is it important to grow our own food, we must take it out of the hands of agribusinesses and into local production and even community gardens.

No genetically modified seeds should be used especially Monsanto non reproducing seeds that require farmers to purchase new seeds each year creating dangerous situations if they decide to use their control over our sustenance and abuse this power. Genetically modified foods are not only dangerous to health, but to the environment as it is cross pollinating with wild foods and organic fields..making no food safe and especially dangerous if it makes crops it cross pollinates with non producing lessening our flora and fauna and reducing oxygen and leaving more carbon dioxide in the air which accelerates global warning.

When we are used to knowing how to cooperatively farm and raise free range meats, and grow our own organic gardens or cooperative gardens, in addition to tremendous health benefits and environmental benefits, we are self supporting enough to not cause the mass problems that could result if for whatever reasons our food production stopped and no or little foods could be found.

If foods were no longer available through stores or it was delayed even as week, there would be widespread storages of food and possibly violence would break out due to panic or people would starve. By having our own gardens and co-op farms for meat/egg/production and saving own own seeds, we would not be at the mercy of agribusinesses, and reduce costs whilde vastly improving health. I do not like what agribusinesses do to the environment and the cruelty of factory farming and damage to empl;oyees and neighbors., how they alter the foods and diminish their nutrients. and I enjoy the security of knowing they is a food supply even in times of emergency as well as liking the benefits to the economy,, life, the pocketbook, and closeness to nature.

Answer 2

again its a big buisness problem these farmers may be small potatos but can they hire american people to good wages and still make a profit? Yes but they choose not to because they want to gain maximum profit and then when there crops are lost and cost go up do they make up for total loses no thats there own dam fault for being so dam cheap im sick of companies and individual owernership and there cheap ways no i will not work all day for 5 dollars an hour you have to pay me decent or else your crops can rot thats the way i feel and illegal people do not need to get there hands in the mix

Answer 3

Well, put it on small-scale...say there's a bridge between your house, and the store. Bridge washes out...you have no other way to get to the store...now, you're stuck. And, if you don't have your food saved up, or a garden out back, well the Domino's guy can't get to your house, either. So, maybe it's better to have an apple tree and a couple tomato plants out back, for that rainy day...

Answer 4

Self-sufficiency in any area is self-empowerment. People of the world would do well to grow as much at home as possible, barter, and promote community supported agriculture using heirloom seeds, avoiding gmo and terminator seeds. Sprouting seeds is an excellent way to maximize nutrition as well.

Answer 5

to be honest with you. we trade and sell to each other. the other country may have something we want. and we have something they want. it's all about money. i don't need to see a link to know this. this has been going on since the beginning of trading. what would people do if they couldn't get fruits and cloth we get from other country's. the world has pretty much spoiled each other.

but game over, i don't want to. some one has already hacked my computer. and if i go to a link it may make it worse.

Answer 6

What are you talking about? they stopped using the terms 1st 2nd and 3rd world years ago. Now they are developed developing and underdeveloped. and India and China (who have the largest populations) are growing at vast rates. Hopefully the middle east and africa can stop living in the 17th century and get with the program.

Answer 7

If a country is dependant on foreign food, or oil, or any other necessary resource, then it must ensure good foreign relatins with countries that produce that resource. Thus, if they attack the ally of a country supplying that resource, they lose that resource, which can cripple your war effort.

Answer 8

Sustainable agricultural development is the foundation for industrialization and economic self-sufficiency.

Answer 9

To feed the people, presently and to store food for later use.

Answer 10

Self reliance is very important. As it is, of course, we are a major exporter of food.