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Food Supply Holds Key To Living Standards
The Agriculture Department distributes an 18 page leaflet titled The Secret of Affluence arguing wealth correlates with food supply and consumer purchases like cars and TVs. It compares US and other nations, noting US agriculture uses four percent of people, with one third of energy used domestically, and links farm productivity to national affluence.
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