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Re:World's Largest Water Diversion Plan Won't Quench China's... by setecgastronomy on Monday December 11, 2017 @04:39PM (#15900724)
You could argue that government help in wiping out the natives and stealing their land and giving it to the white settlers is an agricultural subsidy. It's true that we've never had persistent hunger in the US. But that's cause we stole all the natives land. The natives however suffered tremendous hunger/starvation though.
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Re:World's Largest Water Diversion Plan Won't Quench China's... by WalterBright on Monday December 11, 2017 @05:15PM (#15901042)
> But that's cause we stole all the natives land.

Archaeological bone evidence of the pre-Columbian Indians is that they periodically had famines. Having land is not a sufficient condition for having a consistent, sufficient food supply.

The US, around 1800, was the first country in history to achieve a consistent food surplus.

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