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Re:Ways to start eating insects by riffraff on Thursday November 26, 2015 @11:23AM (#10633571)
> Food in the US is heavily subsidized and overseen by the government for obvious reasons

To be fair, you might be fine with some regulations but very little subsidies.

E.g. corn in the US is heavily subsidized, but rarely used for human consumption; or historically, Iceland used to grow their own bananas until 1960 as fruit import was heavily taxed.

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Re:Ways to start eating insects by such_a_casual on Thursday November 26, 2015 @11:31AM (#10633616)
Well regulation and subsidizing of agriculture in the United States is a direct reaction to the Great Depression. The country was fine without it for over 100 years. It's there in case shit really hits the fan, not because people can't figure it out on their own most of the time.
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