Once upon a time, it was popular to say that the U.S. government only had enough wheat stored up to provide everyone in America with half a loaf of bread. But that is not true anymore.
Recently, I discovered that the U.S. does not have any strategic grain reserves left at all.
Zero. Nada. Zilch. As you will see below, the USDA liquidated the remaining reserves back in 2008.
So if a major food crisis hit this country, our government would have nothing to give us.
Of course the federal government could always go out and try to buy or seize food to feed the population during a major emergency, but that wouldn’t actually increase the total amount of food that was available.
Instead, it would just give the government more power over who gets it.
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