ABSTRACT
From the perspective of winning trade wars, the United States has an insurmountable advantage in agriculture. However, sales of most US agricultural products are not only unnecessary, they are morally wrong. Fifteen of the poorest countries in the world raise and export more agricultural products than they keep for their own use. Economists teach that there must be balanced trade and, from the perspective of maintaining the status quo, this may be true. The often-heard comment that "There are too many people in the world, and overpopulation is the cause of hunger" is the same myth that was expounded in sixteenth-century England, and this Social Control belief system has been revived continuously since. Currently the purchasing power of the poor keeps falling further and further behind that of the wealthy and powerful. Subsidies, acreage permits, and import restrictions to protect the developed world's beet and cane sugar industries are well-recorded history.
