Tobacco is the most widely grown non-food crop in the world - possessing immense amounts of land that could be used for food production. It is estimated that 10 to 20 million people are denied of food each day due to tobacco. People are not starving because there is not enough area to grow it, they are starving because they are denied access to grow it. If tobacco were replaced with food crops we could greatly decrease the amount of people starving in the world. No one needs tobacco - they need food. I believe we should get rid of tobacco completely and replace it with food.
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make NO money on crops. The money is made turning corn into cornflakes, grains into flours...et cetera. Tobacco is a CASH crop...it is up to the farmers that own the land...no tobacco farmer is going to switch.
With the federal tobacco quota buyout of a few years ago, much of the land formerly devoted to growing tobacco (esp. in Eastern NC) is now being used for other crops, or even lying fallow.
While I agree entirely that world hunger is a serious problem, we must also address the fact that it isn't easy to ship perishable goods grown in Podunk, NC to Podunkistan in Asia or Africa someplace. The key isn't changing crop production here in America, but introducing efficient, yet sustainable, agriculture techniques to impoverished areas. This is hard, obviously, and exacerbated by political, cultural, and logistical barriers, but it is doable. If our generation were to take the lead in a Manhattan Project-type project to end world hunger, we would be able to solve it.
Of course, then we'd have an overpopulation problem - see the recent Voluntary Human Extinction Movement blogpost....