• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    We grow all this unnecessary corn so we can be self-sufficient on food at any time, in case a world war breaks out

    In theory it could be positive because it provides a better bargaining position for the US to de-escalate a potential world war

    I’d rather we stop it because it’s wasteful, and that bargaining position could easily be used for brinksmanship by the US (which we have somewhat seen with Trump, although not yet at that level)

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      5 days ago

      Buddy…

      We need diesel to harvest, we save that diesel by dying it red and saving it for agriculture use…

      trump is letting states use those reserves for road use, and farmer won’t have any to harvest.

      And if we were saving for food, we’d save soybeans