It would be ideal if we could come up with a scheme which helps others and manages to reduce our pollution, but maintains our own production. Pay our farmers well so that they produce more food and are able to implement environmentally-friendly practices on their farms. Eastern Europe and the Confederation of Independent States We have had to rely on quite sizeable shipments of grain ourselves lately. Since the downfall of communism we have had to restructure our farms which had become very unproductive, and our distribution system is now a mess. Our food has often been in short supply and is very expensive.
Many people are out of jobs.
We would like to help the countries who are suffering more than we are, but we seem to have limited resources. Maybe the best thing we can do is get our own house in order. Convince our people to eat less meat. We were not always in this fortunate position. In fact, in the late 1970s our agricultural system was in trouble because of decades worth of poor policies.