01-20-2013, 12:32 AM
I had the dead animals and meat log towers and this discussion about this.
To pull it off you need to do 2 things. Convince states that their people will be well fed even if no farm subsidies are paid by the state. Which will be a hard arse thing to do, but possible.
Then, you need to convince the state that with farm subsidies gone, all involvement by the state into agriculture short of environmental and animal and hyigene standards etc should also be removed.
This will cause a natural balance shift where animal calorie intake will require about 4-8 times more money than plant calorie intake. While hopefully keeping the price of food itself relatively stable.
The only real way to do this is to convince states by a UN level law that they need to keep a stockpile of food that is sufficient to feed their population for 3 years on normal diets at all time. That will cause a moment of spike in the cost of food but after the current obligation of overproducing food to maintain the starvation possibility is taken care of by large scale storages and contracts at period intervals to renevew the storages. The overproduction will stop to a large extent but not entirely. It should, at least in theory, create a "food buffer" between the immediate market and its consumption usually very quickly or face it rotting.
Such a food stockpile would reduce the need for a buffer system of extra agricultural production. So, it would , in theory at least, work.
Hard to say what would happen for real, but most state scientists I read indicate that this is the outcome that would happen. New Zealand and its former farm subsidies and their removal are good examples of this.
To pull it off you need to do 2 things. Convince states that their people will be well fed even if no farm subsidies are paid by the state. Which will be a hard arse thing to do, but possible.
Then, you need to convince the state that with farm subsidies gone, all involvement by the state into agriculture short of environmental and animal and hyigene standards etc should also be removed.
This will cause a natural balance shift where animal calorie intake will require about 4-8 times more money than plant calorie intake. While hopefully keeping the price of food itself relatively stable.
The only real way to do this is to convince states by a UN level law that they need to keep a stockpile of food that is sufficient to feed their population for 3 years on normal diets at all time. That will cause a moment of spike in the cost of food but after the current obligation of overproducing food to maintain the starvation possibility is taken care of by large scale storages and contracts at period intervals to renevew the storages. The overproduction will stop to a large extent but not entirely. It should, at least in theory, create a "food buffer" between the immediate market and its consumption usually very quickly or face it rotting.
Such a food stockpile would reduce the need for a buffer system of extra agricultural production. So, it would , in theory at least, work.
Hard to say what would happen for real, but most state scientists I read indicate that this is the outcome that would happen. New Zealand and its former farm subsidies and their removal are good examples of this.