主题：【原创】大豆的陷落（续二） -- 范适安

Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman openly acknowledged the use of food

trade　and aid as a political lever in an important policy-setting article

entitled “Malthus, Marx and the North American Breadbasket.”(Foreign

Affairs 45, July 1967) “Our unmatched food-producing capability,”

he asserted, “has strengthened our foreign policy immeasurably.” Its first

effect was upon “the balance of power between East and West.” North America

became a vital supplier of Communist nations’ food needs, with the result

that their food deficits “are causing them to become politically and

militarily vulnerable.” The United States has supplanted China as Japan’s

main source of food imports. China, in fact, is dependent today on Western

Hemisphere grain supplies. “Without our ability to generate huge farm

exports, these strong economic ties could not have developed. In geographic

terms Japan is off the coast of California. This is but one of the more

dramatic illustrations of the value of a productive farm sector in supporting

our foreign policy.”

转引自Michael Hudson的Super Imperalism,p201.