US crops are largely sold to foreign countries.

Here on the Palouse, the dryland wheat, peas, lentils, barley, and canola feeds about 12% of THE WORLD'S POPULATION.

If this food is not shipped overseas via the inland port at Clarkston, down the Columbia River to Portland, it can be trucked all across our nation to feed our own people.

Our country has been in a fairly neutral state, population-wise, hanging right around 330 million people. That is only around 4% of the population of the world.

The world's population, however, is skyrocketing... in China and India predominately, and together they contribute around 3 billion people to our total Earth number of humans at 7 billion, and are growing steadily each year. Think about that for a moment.

Our country may have to adjust what is eaten... and stay flexible with utilizing the foodstuffs we have available, but Americans have always been creative and innovative, so that should be no problem... and we will not starve.

My point is, we do not have an overpopulation problem in our country. We can feed everyone just fine if we stop sending our crops and agricultural products overseas where there is a huge overpopulation problem (China & India).

In the 1960's, when I was in Elementary School, we were shown pictures of starving children in Africa, and told the the US would be sending them free food. It was explained to us that the African countries could no longer feed their populations because they had too many people for their agriculture to support.

I raised my hand and asked the teacher why we would do such a thing, because if we did, many more babies would be born that could not be fed, and would ultimately starve to death, which seemed to be very cruel.

The entire class turned to me and scowled in disapproval, but I knew it was the truth. Countries in Africa have always had starvation because they do not limit the number of children that are born in a family.
For many years, the overpopulation problem was so bad in China, that they had the 'one child' program, with neighborhood monitors who would report it to the government if a family got pregnant a second time. Abortions were their answer, sad to say.

Now, economically, yes, we would feel the impacts of not making the money off the countries we send food to, that is true.
But no, America is a bountiful country, thank God, and we can easily feed ourselves with some adjustment of demands and what is planted. Get the facts people, and think for yourselves!

So please just turn of the propaganda machine (TV), and give it a think.

Consider the big picture and all the implications of feeding the burgeoning populations of China and India.... Can you see the implications?