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Singapore has a population of 5.6 million people and is only 12 times the size of Manhattan Island. Understandably they have little room for agriculture, particularly the land intensive agriculture that producing animals for food requires. Mostly they import that from Malaysia, which is next door.
I wonder if there are government officials in Singapore encouraging all of this with a view to food security? I often wonder the same with China and their efforts to accelerate renewables. That reduces one of their biggest vulnerabilities, that if there is ever a conflict over Taiwan that they might be militarily blockaded.
i have singaporean fiends and when they told me about the first thing that they were taught in the mandatory military service is that singapore is surrounded by big country and will fall fast. they even memeing on how they were defeated by japanese riding a bicycle. so they are paranoid about their integrity and security and rightly so.