These tactics are important to Israel's national security project. A country has a right to defend itself, after all. Targeting food and the ability to grow and produce food to defeat an enemy, as well as for domestic population control, is historically typical state methodology.

North American bison were all but eliminated in order to drive native Americans off their lands and hunting grounds. We watch historical dramas like Downton Abbey and marvel at how food defines and separates class, liberty and power. Americans, as tenants of empires on the cusp of collapse will do, obsess over food, and their health. Simultaneously the people who will build the new republics that will inherit this continent are studying how the state, especially the corporate state, uses food for profit and control – and we are discovering and building new ways to combat that.

The last thing the state wants to see is someone who can grow and produce his or her living, and share with their community via a marketplace, unhindered and untouched by the state. There is a reason that there are so few local USDA inspected meat processing facilities serving small-holders – as this same federal entity banned all sales of non-USDA inspected processed meat, and other food items. Creative solutions, like farm shares, have become the only way that many people can access fresh and raw food and not be criminals in the eyes of the authorities. Food icon and rebel Joel Salatin had to buy and refurbish his own processing facility in Harrisonburg in order to honestly serve his customers and live more freely. His facility is, of course, USDA approved. Government is so important, a real value add.

The US is blessed with natural abundance and a relatively sparse population, and Americans in general believe caring for land and producing food for the market are good things. Farming and food production is hard work, sometimes impossible, and for many, not rewarding or even happiness-producing. In this arena, the difficulty is compounded by hundreds of US state agencies and functions, and thousands of pages of regulatory controls. These should all be altered or abolished – but in the meantime we'll do just fine. After all, USDA, FDA, Commerce Department and IRS agents aren't armed and deputized, right?

The Visual Capitalist recently assessed countries in the world in terms of daily calorie consumption. I'm pretty sure even all-you-can-eat Florida Congressman Randy Fine won't be able to guess which country is Number 1!