Quote Originally Posted by IRescue452 View Post
I don't know that we'd have such a panic about food. I mean, we tend to stock our homes up here. Some people in parts of Japan, on the other hand, don't have huge fridges in their apartments and houses because they're always on the go. Plus we have tons more land space as our own country than they do in Japan. We have lots more options for food coming from elsewhere within the counry. Imagine how much food is within their island nation on any given day as compared to how much is within the continental US.
I remember that back in 1986 after the Chernobyl incident, a lot of food had to be destroyed. All our harvests that year; and we were not allowed to drink milk, or eat dairy products; I remember that things like nuts, mushrooms and many other things were taken off the market. And we were in Germany, more than 1,000 km away from Chernobyl!