Why Food Shortages Will Hit America Hard
Consumers don’t understand how food gets to their table
A failing supply chain will cause food shortages regardless of where the crops are grown. Most people envision America’s rolling farmland filled with crops and think food won’t be a problem. We tend to ignore that a few steps are required to turn milk into cheese and get it to our table.
Almost every article about supply disruptions and food shortages will have a reader posting a comment that US consumers should be fine because the nation provides so much of what the world eats.
America’s food production is not safe from supply disruptions.
A net exporter is a term to designate nations that produce an excess of a particular good which is exported to other countries. The US food exports have little to do with what Americans eat unless your diet consists of sitting in the middle of a wheat field chewing on a stalk.
These readers imply that the US won’t experience food shortages because we grow so much. The commenters…
