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Old 04-21-2008, 12:47 PM
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i warned ya bout the food crisis in the future, now it looks to becomeing a reality.

http://www2.nysun.com/article/74994

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
At a Costco Warehouse in Mountain View, Calif., yesterday, shoppers grew frustrated and occasionally uttered expletives as they searched in vain for the large sacks of rice they usually buy.

"Where's the rice?" an engineer from Palo Alto, Calif., Yajun Liu, said. "You should be able to buy something like rice. This is ridiculous."

The bustling store in the heart of Silicon Valley usually sells four or five varieties of rice to a clientele largely of Asian immigrants, but only about half a pallet of Indian-grown Basmati rice was left in stock. A 20-pound bag was selling for $15.99.

"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.

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hurry up and get your stock, this is happening faster than i thought it would, i thought it would be atleast 2 years b4 this started.
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Old 04-21-2008, 08:23 PM
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I don't really consider it a crisis, and the only reason this is going on is because India and a few other country's stopped export of rice even though they have more than enough for their country and others. They are afraid that they wont have enough for there own country, but what would happen if we decided to do that in the us with all the wheat, fruits and veggies we grow :P
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You're going to see those prices go way up pretty soon

Already have!


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Old 04-21-2008, 11:35 PM
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na they doing what the fuel companys done. hold back only release what is need and let the stock market fly sky high
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Old 04-22-2008, 01:17 AM
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You're going to see those prices go way up pretty soon

Already have!


PS. Spazz did you make all those?
lol he seems to have one forevery thing
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No I didn't make any of the silly images I post.
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Old 04-23-2008, 09:59 PM
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thats cool, still great to see them Spazz

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Old 04-26-2008, 03:32 PM
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Japan is having it alot worse than us. They import 80% of their food . There isn't a stick of butter in all Japan.
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will it only white rice ia limited in my local store, but wild rice is soo much better for the body! not limited
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10 minute drive and its rice feilds near across the sacramento valley, 75% of that rice is sold to asia. we have more rice produced in this valley than all of korea and vietnam together. what would happen if california rice farmers held back their sale of rice? lets see, a bowl of rice in Japan would cost around $50.00.. How much corn is used for other things than food such as cooking oil, bio-fuels, and soda's?

there is no food crisis, its an eceonomic downturn and third world nations are not able to purchase the food, nor willing to farm the very land they have. instead they purchase ak47's and ammo to fight the very citizens that want food. and these citizens want their government to help them do just that, get food on the table. a vicious circle? yes indeed.

my opinion is these countries need to let their people open farms for themselves and sell what they grow on the open market, the farmers own the land, grow the food and sell it. they pay taxes on the profit and thus the state gains money that way. more money than if it owned the land and had workers "farming" it with no incentive to produce. most grain crops grow quite well in africa..

food crisis? no. too many little dictators controlling everything, and doing a bad job of it ...yes. give the land to the people and your country will not go hungry.
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