When people say food security is national security, it's not some glib little statement that you throw out. It really means something. If you're incapable as a nation of providing food for your own country, you are by definition beholden on other nations. And I am not concerned that we are going to not be able to produce enough food here in the United States. I just simply am not. (07:12–07:19)
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Asserts that a nation's inability to produce its own food makes it dependent on other countries.
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