Know your history, Mr. Simplistic (Score 1)

Russia has a very long history of food shortages because of extremely poorly thought out ag. practices. Such as the idea of, if you keep a potato in cold storage, the following spring this potato would be better adapted to grow in cold climates. Thanks to this line of thinking and not enough people standing up to fight this practice, millions (yes millions) starved to death.
We are trying to prevent turing into another Russia, and the food supply is a little too important to leave to a world view solely controlled by quarterly gains.