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 Supermarkets should only sell food produced from within their own country rather than (11)

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Supermarkets should only sell food produced from within their own country rather than

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...Importing from elsewhere?

That would single-handedly kill international markets. (Assuming that when you say "supermarkets" you mean all industries within a country).

Kovaleva(55) Disputed
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Ok. But what can you say about food industry? If a country has no choice, except selling its own products, it will have to develop the way of food production. This includes: building new factories so new places for a work will be opened, people will be able to earn money and feed others.

GuitaristDog(2548) Clarified
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I'm assuming that the term "supermarket" was meant in the sense of a grocery store.

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I didn't know whether the debate creator was someone relatively new to the concept of economics and believed that all goods bought and sold were in supermarkets, or whether they genuinely meant supermarkets.

Try getting a banana in Britain .

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I believe your 'gif' leaves out all the excess packaging

Why the Morrision's chain of supermarkets felt that a product that came with its own natural packaging needed to be packaged is beyond me.

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Yes, America would be able to survive easily because we produce nearly all of the world's food. All the country's that rely solely on us, like Europe, will starve and die like they deserve to. Then America will remain forever as the best country in the world!

Axmeister(4322) Disputed
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"America would be able to survive easily because we produce nearly all of the world's food."

Your link makes no sense, the statement is poppycock anyway.

"All the country's that rely solely on us, like Europe, will starve and die like they deserve to."

Europe produces more food than America does.

"Then America will remain forever as the best country in the world!"

I like how the whole of Europe has to die before America is the best country in the world. Therefore, you're saying that every European country is better than America.

Not only would world food markets collapse with supplies cut off, but many countries and regions would lose absolute advantage in international trade.

This is an idiotic idea

PresChaffy(172) Disputed
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Not really, you're thinking too much in global terms. If the food markets only applied nationally then the Sigmund Freud Theory suggests that after a few decades there would be a lot more equality amongst nations (As shown here where the circle represents levels of inequality in wealth and the quadratic line represents international food trade, using omnigraph)

I have never encountered a banana plantation in England. Where, pray would we obtain them?

Not every country can grow the same produce.

America, for example, only has only tea plantation in the entire country (i doubt that could keep up with the current demand)