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Re:What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed? by gruez on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:43AM (#28099440)
>Not nearly as important as food; the only thing as important as the food supply is our supply of drinking water. Nothing else is comparably important, so you're wasting your time trying to find analogies.

Guess what modern agriculture (tractors, fertilizers, pesticides) runs off of?

Furthermore, if food security really is important, why is only dairy and egg supply managed? Surely if you want to keep your country fed, you'd want to go after the staples like potatoes or grain? If all the milk cows and egg laying chickens vanished, people would have to change their eating habits. Some people (working in adjacent industries) might lose their jobs, but that'd be it. On the other hand, if all the wheat/soybean/corn/rice/potato crops vanished there would be a massive famine.

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Re:What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed? by SECProto on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:53AM (#28099525)
> Surely if you want to keep your country fed, you'd want to go after the staples like potatoes or grain?

Canada is extremely competitive on grain and potatoes (and lentils and oilseeds and ...). Supply management isn't needed if we're already competitive exporters of a given product.

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Re:What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed? by gruez on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:01PM (#28099596)
>Supply management isn't needed if we're already competitive exporters of a given product.

sounds more like the real goal is protectionism rather than "having a stable supply of food"

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Re:What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed? by SECProto on Saturday August 07, 2021 @01:41PM (#28100369)
Yes, protecting important food suppliers from some foreign competition to ensure a stable supply of food is protectionism.
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Re:What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed? by hluska on Sunday August 08, 2021 @12:32AM (#28104231)
And again, you’re being needlessly argumentative and couching it all in very poor communications skills. Your comments have had absolutely no value. Please stop - it’s low brow and boring.
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Re:What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed? by squabble on Sunday August 08, 2021 @03:21AM (#28104841)
You are being very unkind.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed? by 0xld on Sunday August 08, 2021 @09:37AM (#28106592)
The way you constantly point out their (possibly ESL) grammar is seriously bad vibes. We can all understand them just fine.
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Re:What do you do with a billion grams of surplus weed? by slapfrog on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:02PM (#28099610)
Supporting the entire food industry keeps the entire food supply secure. Shortages in one sector will raise prices in another. Libertarian madness is not a sensible way to run a country. Not even America is that crazy.
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