I would expect the US priority would be giving $33 billion to farmers to aid crop production, and also using those fancy emergency powers to prioritize growth and distribution of grains and feed stock instead of ginseng and canola?
Just food for thought...
Minor nitpick: freedom & free markets prevent famine. "Democracy" leads to tyranny. See Plato's Five Regimes.
So a small group of wealthy people can buy up all the food and make it unaffordable by everybody else? That can't prevent famine.
Is that what free markets do? So you're telling me that you're unable to go to your local hardware store (even if it's a giant corporate Home Depot store) and purchase heirloom vegetable seeds and plant them in your yard? You don't have $100 to spend on this kind of preparation? How about $1000 to purchase long term food storage and Sawyer water filters, so that you're protected in the event of some kind of catastrophe? If you can't come up with $1100 between now and the time that shit hits the fan for real and you think this is "wealthy people" stuff, you may as well vote for Bernie Sanders or Joseph Stalin and then pray for the best.
Lots of us are here to have serious discussions, you know.