Food isn’t a free market activity and you can’t just shut down a huge portion of the production and not bother to even cursorily think about the rest of the system.
The point I was trying to make is that food security is one of the most basic elements of national security.
You can’t just stop farming in California (or raise the price to obscene levels) and expect things to sort themselves out on their own.
Basic large scale food production does not work as a pure free market activity. It would have wildly oscillating prices and large portions of the population would periodically starve. That’s during normal times, and is purely economically driven, not even counting a climate crisis.
The point I was trying to make is that food security is one of the most basic elements of national security.
You can’t just stop farming in California (or raise the price to obscene levels) and expect things to sort themselves out on their own.
Basic large scale food production does not work as a pure free market activity. It would have wildly oscillating prices and large portions of the population would periodically starve. That’s during normal times, and is purely economically driven, not even counting a climate crisis.