Sentence:  Why can we— a nation where people grow food and process food and distribute food only if they want to — why can we so consistently and so overwhelmingly outproduce, <WSD>outprocess</WSD> and outdistribute a nation where people are ordered to perform these functions . . . under threat of the severest penalties for disobedience? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To process better or more efficiently.