Why can't Iran and Venezulea feed their own people? Why come to the U.S. for corn and wheat?

Question

Iran may be dueling with Washington over its nuclear ambitions, but when the country desperately needed corn last month, it turned to the United States.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has made no secret of his disdain for U.S. President George W. Bush, calling him a donkey and even Satan, but when millers in Caracas need wheat to make bread, they go shopping for American supplies.

Nations like Iran, Venezuela, Syria and Cuba have icy diplomatic ties with Washington but they do not let politics stand in the way of importing competitively-priced food or feed ingredients from the United States.

Maybe we should let them starve, or in the case of Venesulea, trade them a pound of wheat for a pound of oil.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070913/ts_nm/grains_usa_exports_dc

Answer 1

So we have wheat to export but import wheat gluten from China??????

Answer 2

you're proper, it particularly is overstated for the main area. yet once you have ever eaten corn, and seen the consequence right here day...you comprehend there is something to it. Corn isn't 'particularly' digested and for this reason it particularly is nutritonal value is decrease than different extra digestible factors. Soy and wheat are not precisely an identical, however the main's that each and one and all 3 have been desperate to be nutrional 'negatives' that would desire to be prevented in want of oats, rice, potato, barley and different greater high quality, extra particularly digestible factors.

Answer 3

hi, i don't know, that you are an American or from another nation, but any way i know that you are a human , you have sure heart and the first thing that is important in our life is loveness and pease between people around the world, .
i am an iranian girl , and i live in iran, i don't know that why there are still some people that think like you, .
what do u think? do u think that all of the world must say Ok to America just becuase , there is a Goverment names America just with 250 years history and may be less.
we should sale our selves just becuase we need to wheat .?
i am not agree with iranian or syrian or venuzela goverment or their politics. but sure i am not agree with american politics. if nuclear technology is a bad thing for us why Israel and America and a lot of countries have it.
and if it is agood thing why should n't we have it?
and just remember it that first Goverment who used from Atomic Bomb was America, not iran , not syria, and venuzela,... y

we did not kill any one in Afghanistan or iraq, we did not make Bin ladan, all of these things did happen by American hands. not any one else.
we need to wheat,but we do not need to drink blood of african children in african countries, who needs to just a little bread to stay alive.

youre ever friend from Iran
fahime

Answer 4

Right-On Man !!

Oh btw , the United States supplies the most and the best wheat in the world . Pasta made in Italy is made with American wheat . And that's a fact Jack !!

Answer 5

Ideology and poilitics aside, business is business.

Anyone here buy Citgo Gas? Venezuela owns Citgo.
Lukoil? Russia.

Answer 6

Don't you know that Venezuela is a big supplier of oil to the United States?

Answer 7

For the same reason we buy oil from Venezuela: They sell it to us.

Answer 8

Why cant US supply own oil to their people? Why come to Iraq and Venezuela to still their oil?

Answer 9

because america is that stupid kid that everyone grew up with.....you know the one, wealthy trying to get everyone to like them...you know the one that no one likes but uses for everything that kid has?

Answer 10

no farm land