A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.
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Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.
Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.
Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.
In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.
Science, innovation, safety and affordability. Who could oppose United States food policy based on these core principles? Unfortunately, this idea has become unnecessarily controversial in agriculture.
We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.
Each country has to decide how to best engage their own citizens and their own policy environment to ensure they can produce the food they need.
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.