Food, a weapon?

Is food a weapon? Is there really a 50 cal shooting burger? Is this a serious post? Yes,no and yes. In this blogpost I’m going to talk about why food is a weapon. I apologize in advance that none of the food is a burger shooting bullets.

The fact that food was a weapon was realized long ago in the time that the Romans ate the entire Mediterranean for breakfast. The Romans always had impressive tactics that made them superior in battles but the least known and most important was there food tactics. You see the Romans realized that an enemy without food wasn’t an enemy, they were free kills. The Romans kept expanding taking more land, producing more food,defending their own food and so on.

After the Romans only America used food as a weapon on purpose. The westward expansion of America in the nineteenth century was about food and the means to move it, as was Japan’s expanding empire in the early twentieth century. Germany explicitly cited food production to justify its aggression in the east. Saying that America also traded the Soviets food and also traded England food so they could resist the Nazi’s.

History and cold calculation suggest food would be a weapon in a Civil War II, one of many, but of prime importance long term. Civil wars have long gestations, go kinetic suddenly and get complicated in a hurry. Food is the indispensable survival prep. At minimum this means a secure long-term stash of high calorie food sufficient to outlast the initial violence and privation without relying on resupply.

If you were to count beer as food than America takes the lead with another move. Back in the 1900’s America had a real alcohol problem. They could not get their people to stop drinking, so as any normal nation would, they poisoned the alcohol and people started dying because of it. This actually worked and America got rid of the drinking problem with no one being wiser about their actions.

So I think we can safely assume that food is a weapon and that is can be the cruelest weapon of them all.