Food – However much you hope that the food crisis will go away, it's difficult to ignore this week's headlines warning us that the era of cheap food is over. But which of the staples in our shopping basket will be worst hit?
Ten years, We will probably be dead are on our way from starvation unless you are a Fat Cat and have a Horde.
Food security is a concept still alien to most of us.
Dump your lawn, plant food.
Dump chemical fertilizers and stop choking the landfills - compost your waste and use it to feed your soil.
Support your local farmers - fsck big agribusiness!
Eyeball those spaces, such as medians and vacant lots, which should be part of the commons - consider doing a drive-by planting.
We can feed ourselves, and each other. Let me repeat - fsck big agribusiness! Their food is garbage - we can do better.
How about turning our swords into plowshares?
I'll wait until the Second Coming for that to happen. In the meantime we must live in the realm of reality, and conflict is part of that reality.
How long before everyone starts to realize that the cornucopia of the earth doesn't actually go on forever?
Will everyone still be saying "Save all the Babies, and feed the whole world" when they have to start worrying about feeding themselves?
How will the world look 20 yrs from now when the population has more than doubled? There wont be millions of people starving, there will be Billions. And just wait for the diseases that will crop up, all because of our uncontrolled need to breed.
"I'll wait until the Second Coming for that to happen. In the meantime we must live in the realm of reality, and conflict is part of that reality."
Sure, but spending 60% of our budget on the military industrial complex and outspending every country in the world by many, many, many times over seems like a whole lot of socialized 'medicine' (read welfare) for the military industrial complex.
Where did you get the figure of 60%. Our military budget comprises a much smaller percentage of GDP. In any case, China isn't cutting its military budget.
Dropkick -
No bait and switch please. Dionys wrote "budget" not GDP. I know the new meme or way to frame the issue by Republicans is now to compare spending to GDP. You know that 60% of the budget is different then 60% of GDP.
The deficit mattered as long as Democrats were in office. Now that it's a Republican president's budget the frame by Republicans is to compare the deficit to GDP.
We're too smart for that. It doesn't work on us.
The U.S. will be fine with some changes to our crop selections, but China's food production has actually decreased during recent years. China has clearly set aside the government's historic goal of feeding its population in favor of rapid industrialization. The problem is that India and China won't be allowed to buy every scrap of food on the world market forever. Five years or so from now, unless something happens to greatly expand world food production, the Chinese will live to regret their economic development policies. China and India, for that matter perhaps countries like Japan and as we have seen recently Haiti, basically any countries that import most of their food supplies, are going to be screwed if food-producing countries see the need for export limits.
The produce in our supermarkets travels on average 1,500 miles to reach us. It is grown on depleted soil using large amounts of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides. It is cultivated and harvested using large machinery.
No wonder it is getting expensive. We might as well just eliminate the middleman and drink crude oil for our nourishment.
Record breaking cold across the U.S. , May to be even colder .
Toyota Prius is a rolling Toxic Waste dump , batteries are so toxic they can destroy a whole ecosystem , wonder why the Environmentalist are not targeting the Prius yet as a harmful product for the environment ?
Terrorist have taken over the Commodity Market and can drive the American Economy to new highs , hurting Americans without the use of weapons .
Oil Companies , Commodity Traders and Environmentalist are prospering from the current economy , when others are suffering .
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Thanks Al Gore!
Great plan!
Gore????
I challenge you to try to explain how Mr. Gore has contributed to the rise in food prices that the U.K. is encountering.
Quack: Don't pay any attention to the idiot. He hasn't a clue about what normal people will have to spend in order to feed themselves since he is hand fed by his hero. I truly never realized one could survive on BS, but locky proves it is possible.