I think food security is going to play a very large part in the politics of the near future.

America is the worlds breadbasket. Where I live most of the small farmers didn’t prep their fields last fall because of the credit crunch.

Locally it costs about $3k per acre to prep for the chile season. Usually borrowed $. Many of the fields are fallow now because the farmers couldn’t afford to prep and plant. So this coming fall will have a much reduced harvest.

I’m concerned that this years harvest across many crops will be reduced at a time of financial upheaval world wide. I suspect there will be food scarcity in many parts of the world. Consider that there have been food riots across the world in recent years already.

Add in some sick crops and there’s some serious stress to our support stuctures.

Add in biowarfare and things get hairy quick.