We’re closer to the cliff-edge than most of us realize...
(and certainly much closer than the gummint will acknowledge)
Grain prices soar globally (Governments Curb Exports, Fight Theft)
CS Monitor ^ | 03/27/08 | Daniel Ten Kate
Posted on 03/31/2008 5:22:27 AM CDT by TigerLikesRooster
Grain prices soar globally
Rice shortages are appearing across Asia. In Egypt, the Army is now baking bread to curb food riots.
By Daniel Ten Kate | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the March 27, 2008 edition
Bangkok, Thailand - - Rice farmers here are staying awake in shifts at night to guard their fields from thieves. In Peru, shortages of wheat flour are prompting the military to make bread with potato flour, a native crop. In Egypt, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso food riots have broken out in the past week.
Around the world, governments and aid groups are grappling with the escalating cost of basic grains. In December, 37 countries faced a food crisis, reports the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), and 20 nations had imposed some form of food-price controls.
In Asia, where rice is on every plate, prices are shooting up almost daily. Premium Thai fragrant rice now costs $900 per ton, a nearly 30 percent rise from a month ago.
Exporters say the price could eclipse $1,000 per ton by June. Similarly, prices of white rice have climbed about 50 percent since January to $600 per ton and are projected to jump another 40 percent to $800 per ton in April.
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[From the article] “In Egypt, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso food riots have broken out in the past week”
Don’t think it can’t happen here.....
[From the article] “In Egypt, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso food riots have broken out in the past week”
Don’t think it can’t happen here.....<<<
I know it will happen here.
Remember the fights, when the have the Friday after Thanksgiving sales in the stores?
If they will fight over low prices on electronics, add to that the fact they are hungry.
This is the factor that has been bothering me.
It is the factor that is going to cause blood shed in our streets.
I always think of a brother of mine, during the cold war he had a wife that I would have...........well not have had 4 kids with, under 6 years old, who were as wild as animals.
I always imagined how he would feel, when he got to the end of the road, after listening to his family bitch and moan for as many hours as the gas lasted, to dump them, God only knows where and with never enough money for the food he would need to shut them up and his wife would have started complaining that she didn’t like it, so the kids would take up the cry of “I don’t like this” and he would be ready to explode, and so will the other 25 million people, who think they are running to safety, some where, some unknown place.
Some place, I read that our wheat farmers had an excellent crop theis past season, but other parts of the world did not and that it had already been shipped to them.
Many people have no idea of what it takes to feed a nation, or how in trouble this country is going to be.
The Panama canal is controlled by the Chinese.
All it takes is one ship to explode half way through it and there will be almost nothing coming in from China and other countries.
Sure they can go round the horn, if the other countries like Venezuela are not also attacking the ships as they go by.
Mexico, is more communist, than American and its leaders do not strike me as the kind that cares if its people starve or not.
We are in for a wake up, I fear.
Good Morning, hope you have a good day, a smiling one.