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On the first page...you have people grunbling about not finding rice...and then it tells how one guy is buying a bag he doesn't even need...to give to a friend.
"You can't eat this every day. It's too heavy," a health care executive from Palo Alto, Sharad Patel, grumbled as his son loaded two sacks of the Basmati into a shopping cart. "We only need one bag but I'm getting two in case a neighbor or a friend needs it," the elder man said.
Compare that to the crisis in Haiti....
Food prices rising across the world - CNN.com (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/24/food.ap/index.html - broken link)
No one knows that better than Eugene Thermilon, 30, a Haitian day laborer who can no longer afford pasta to feed his wife and four children since the price nearly doubled to $0.57 a bag. Their only meal on a recent day was two cans of corn grits.
From this article (in the Seattle Times) food costs rose by a staggering 4 PERCENT in the United States.
70Ford, this is how being out-bid starts. First it is the Haitians that cannot afford it, and then people you know as it comes up the chain.
From what I follow, India has put limited bans on the export of rice. They (wisely) figure it is more important to eat than turn a buck. Thailand has been having outright grain thefts of entire silos.
Since you were trying to do your mathemagic on the topic, let's check your verbal, too?
When you cannot afford gasoline . . . you walk. When you cannot afford food you ___________.
Whoever wrote this article apparently does not understand the difference between rationing and supply shifts. Either that or they're fear-mongerers. Probablys some of both.
That works out to cost the United States 328,767,123 dollars a day. A DAY.
That is if it is still 10 billion. I read something recently that said 14 billion...can't find it, though. Oh well.
As of a few seconds ago.. the population of the US was estimated to be 303,909,489 people.
m'kay, some good answers there . . . . going down the list . . .
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Originally Posted by Clay Lady
Go fishing?
Not too much. We have poisoned the fish with PCBs and Mercury from burning so much coal. It concentrates up the food chain.
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Originally Posted by Southlander
Plant a garden?
You get bonus points on that one. A+
A Big garden. Friends and family size. Around 2000 square feet for each of the folks you might like to feed. If you cannot defend it, welcome to Haiti or Thailand.
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Originally Posted by sterlinggirl
run Spot, run.
Witty and apt. The Flight option of Fight or Flight. So if Haitians and Mexicans flee to America, where do Americans flee to?
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Originally Posted by drover
Whoever wrote this article apparently does not understand the difference between rationing and supply shifts. Either that or they're fear-mongerers. Probablys some of both.
Maybe some drama. It is the Sun, after all. But that is the realm where the anything new in the news starts. There is some real downside risk ahead. Probably should have went for "Make Food, Not War."
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