Are you saying the US would be on the brink of starvation?
The US is probably one of the biggest agricultural powerhouses in the world. It has a huge amount of farmable soil. It exports tons of agriculture and is a major supplier to many countries including China.
Week six sure Americans might not have bananas and imported tropical fruits on or off-season from South America but they'd still have tons of corn, grain, domestic fruits (apples), domestic nuts, soy, just all kinds of things. I admit in the long-run it's possible there could be issues with sourcing fertilize but even that I doubt. The US has huge natural gas reserves which can be used to make fertilizer among other things. The sad fact is the US is probably one of if not the best positioned country in the world to survive in near total isolation at some level due to food self-sufficiency and sufficient resources of energy. Add to that all the pasture for animals for slaughter and milk, still unexploited areas which could be converted, two big coasts with access to oceans for fishing. Off the top of my head I think cooking oils might be one of the few immediate problems but that could likely be fixed in an emergency by removing corn from ethanol and starting to convert more of it to corn oil, not to mention existing peanut oil, canola (which as I understand is pretty hardy and easy to grow in tons of places), soy, etc.
I think there would be riots about no new iPhones before you'd see any over food unless it wasn't being allocated properly at all. Admittedly the prices wouldn't be nice for the proletariat in the US and there would be some shocks there but there wouldn't be a need to smuggle in food.
Is capitalism was still a thing in the US for this scenario? How many agri businesses would need to burn huge amounts of produce to keep their profits up without the guarantee of foreign export markets being open to them? With the remaining produce having massively inflated prices for the domestic market, there'd probably be a pretty steep decline in public health.
Potentially less production due to a huge need to have the entire working age population conscripted into the military as combat arms occupations and sent abroad.
Are you saying the US would be on the brink of starvation?
The US is probably one of the biggest agricultural powerhouses in the world. It has a huge amount of farmable soil. It exports tons of agriculture and is a major supplier to many countries including China.
Week six sure Americans might not have bananas and imported tropical fruits on or off-season from South America but they'd still have tons of corn, grain, domestic fruits (apples), domestic nuts, soy, just all kinds of things. I admit in the long-run it's possible there could be issues with sourcing fertilize but even that I doubt. The US has huge natural gas reserves which can be used to make fertilizer among other things. The sad fact is the US is probably one of if not the best positioned country in the world to survive in near total isolation at some level due to food self-sufficiency and sufficient resources of energy. Add to that all the pasture for animals for slaughter and milk, still unexploited areas which could be converted, two big coasts with access to oceans for fishing. Off the top of my head I think cooking oils might be one of the few immediate problems but that could likely be fixed in an emergency by removing corn from ethanol and starting to convert more of it to corn oil, not to mention existing peanut oil, canola (which as I understand is pretty hardy and easy to grow in tons of places), soy, etc.
I think there would be riots about no new iPhones before you'd see any over food unless it wasn't being allocated properly at all. Admittedly the prices wouldn't be nice for the proletariat in the US and there would be some shocks there but there wouldn't be a need to smuggle in food.
Is capitalism was still a thing in the US for this scenario? How many agri businesses would need to burn huge amounts of produce to keep their profits up without the guarantee of foreign export markets being open to them? With the remaining produce having massively inflated prices for the domestic market, there'd probably be a pretty steep decline in public health.
Potentially less production due to a huge need to have the entire working age population conscripted into the military as combat arms occupations and sent abroad.