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Originally Posted by Draak
This seems to be really odd. Seeing as the U.S. does not actually grow enought food to feed their population. There is a lot of food imported into the states simply so that they will have enough to feed everyone, if you do some research(outside of U.S. goverment sources) I'm sure that you will find this out easily. The reason that the U.S. can donate so much to other nations is that it is simply money being used to import more, and send it.
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I did my research after you said that. Depending on what catagories of food you're talking about, the US is a large, or very large, exporter of food. That would mean, food we produced, and are exporting. I'm not sure if you have a paranoia of US government sources or what, but I don't. The USDA has some very enlightening articles on the subject. Apparently the billions of dollars in homegrown food we export has fallen significantly in the last decade. I guess we're down to $10.5 billion dollars worth of food we sold to others. We are also importing higher amounts of processed food.
I suppose the USDA could be lying about a few billion dollars, and millions of tons of food, in exports, but I'd think someone would have maybe noticed that.