Bob Kolker wrote:
>
> It differs from cosmetic manufactureing. We absolutely NEED FOOD. We
> don't need a lot of other stuff that is being made. To be sure, farming
> is a business, but it is a business without which our civillization
> would collapse. Can you see 300 million people thrown to their own
> devices to find food if there were no farmers. If the alien space bats
> kidnapped all the farmers then we would have to produce a new generation
> of farmers pretty damned quick. There is only so much food stored up.
> Soon we weould have to grow more or die.

How do government supports for farming protect us
against those darn alien space bats?

Without government supports, prices would go up,
more people would become farmers, problem solved.