[Ludi]

In ye olden days of pioneers here in my region, people used to cut down the pecan trees to get at the pecans nuts because the nuts were so valuable to sell.

Was that knowledge of the value of a pecan nut, or was it ignorant short-sighted greed? The trees were cheap, but the nuts were expensive.

I see in this kind of thread people bitching about the fat, ignorant, wasteful poor. Like, let's blame the poor for the ills of our society, when the behavior of the poor is a symptom of a larger problem. Most people in our society (in the US) aren't poor, so why single out the poor?

[Revi]

Cheap food has been a policy for a long time.

It bankrupts farmers and costs taxpayers.

I am not saying we should stop feeding the poor, but this cheap food policy may not be sustainable.

http://www.coopdirectory.org/salt001.htm

[MarkJ]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('VMarcHart', 'T')he fact is, if food or any other resource wasn't so cheap, people would value them more. Same with gasoline, if you want to choose another resource.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I') see in this kind of thread people bitching about the fat, ignorant, wasteful poor. Like, let's blame the poor for the ills of our society, when the behavior of the poor is a symptom of a larger problem. Most people in our society (in the US) aren't poor, so why single out the poor?

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'C')heap food has been a policy for a long time.

It bankrupts farmers and costs taxpayers.

I am not saying we should stop feeding the poor, but this cheap food policy may not be sustainable.

http://www.coopdirectory.org/salt001.htm

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mcgowanjm', '
')The US food policy will lead to BK farmers and famine
starting March.

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'Y')eah, lazy people should probably just starve to death.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'Y')eah, lazy people should probably just starve to death.

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'Y')eah, lazy people should probably just starve to death.

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mcgowanjm', '
')The US food policy will lead to BK farmers and famine
starting March.

[Revi]

I can't see food running terribly low by the end of March, but we did have a run on rice a couple of years ago, and the rice disappeared from the shelves.

If the same were to happen for wheat there would be real problems.

China can outbid the rest of the world for what there is.

China has always been the world's largest wheat producer, but they use almost all of it, so they've never been a big exporter.

If their crop goes badly then we have real problems.

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'C')hina has always been the world's largest wheat producer, but they use almost all of it, so they've never been a big exporter.

[VMarcHart]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', '.')..we did have a run on rice a couple of years ago, and the rice disappeared from the shelves.

[gnm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('VMarcHart', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', '.')..we did have a run on rice a couple of years ago, and the rice disappeared from the shelves.

[MarkJ]

We heard stories about Sam's Club having a per-customer-per-visit limit on certain types of rice, but all the local stores had plenty of rice at the time with no limits.

Even the fear mongering by the media didn't cause a hoarding and panic buying driven disruption.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mcgowanjm', '
')By the end of March 2010, in the first Friday of April, the despair
of Flyover Country will be obvious to those who are looking.

[efarmer]

"The captain would like to direct everyone's attention to the land below as we cruise
west at 35,000 feet. Below us, is Flyover Country, and while you are sipping on
generous 3 ounce cups of high fructose laced, carbonated nectar, and gorging on
honey roast peanuts, say a prayer for those poor souls down there in all that God forsaken
farmland, marooned between those great rivers and lakes."

Down below, a poor urchin looked up and he chewed the cardboard left from his last
box of macaroni and cheese, with the empty cheese foil pouch on his nose to trick
himself into the notion of flavor. He saw the plane leave contrails and streak westward and
the old lamenting rhyme played over and over inside his head.,,

The East is swell and the West is the most, and my ass is toast, 'cause I ain't on the coast.

[Revi]

Very poetic Efarmer.

I did find out that the price of rice is now high enough again to spur hoarding in Southeast Asia.

It isn't as high as it was a couple of years ago, but it is back up there.

I don't think widespread famine is possible in a few short months, but there may be some disruptions coming in a few things.

[MarkJ]

You know food is too cheap when you see so may incredibly obese lower income shoppers buying tons of garbage at WalMart SuperCenters. Many of the low income part-time cashiers are obese as well.

Many of the low income shoppers in these stores are so obese that they have to use motorized carts, walkers, canes, or wheelchairs to navigate the store, then need help getting into the transit buses, taxis and vehicles.


Many poor residents don't care about shortages of things like rice, meats, fruits and vegetables, but they would panic if there were shortages of frozen dinners, candy, chips, soda, snack cakes, cookies, cigarettes, beer, scratch-off tickets, pre-paid cellular minutes etc.

[mcgowanjm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mcgowanjm', '
')By the end of March 2010, in the first Friday of April, the despair
of Flyover Country will be obvious to those who are looking.