Doesn’t sound like alot, but rice has went from .25 to 1.30 in my area. In just a few months. We won’t even go into dairy and eggs!
Will someone please explain to me the logic of truck drivers, for example, going on strike to protest the price of gas - as if there is a High Minister of Gas Prices who will see this and lower the prices. I mean seriously, what the hell to people who do this hope to accomplish other than showing how ignorant they are?
finally a cure for obesity
Riots are fine, just as long as its not global warming we’ll be OK.
Guess not.
perhaps someone could post
some of the prices being discussed...
how much is, rice, sugar, etc,
There are food price spikes going on all across the globe as I write this. The hardest hit by these rising prices are unsurprisingly the poor who didn’t have the money to pay the old prices. As leaders and activists try desperately to come up with ways to help ease the problem, allow me to make a few suggestions.
An international body should be set up to create standards for how much food the average person should eat. The recommendation of 2000 calories a day would be a good place to start. It can be changed as needed. Moreover this body would should have the power to distribute food as needed and have the power to punish nations that are not in compliance. This body should also have the power to repeal protective national laws prohibiting the exporting of food stuffs. Places like China have such laws.
People who do not meet their 2000 calories a day ration should be able to sell the calories they don’t eat to their neighbors. This will result in the equalizing of food consumption around the globe.
People should be required to eat slower. Say one spoon/fork full per every 30 seconds or so. People who eat fast don’t often realize how full their getting until several minutes later. Eating slower will allow people to sense exactly how full they are getting. This would go hand in hand with taking smaller bites – which is just a healthy alternative anyway. People who refuse to eat at the new speeds should face steep fines.
We should be required to buy new, smaller plates. Bigger plates invite bigger portions. Most people try desperately to fill their plate when at the dinner table. Smaller plates won’t let us take helpings that are so large and thus in addition to slowing down our eating styles help us all conserve food.
Taxes need to be raised on food stuffs. Any economist will tell you that higher prices reduce demand. But artificially driving up the price we can increase our supply rapidly. This will encourage people to stop eating simply because they are bored.
Scientists need to be encouraged to come up with drugs that can act as food substitutes. We already know that “uppers” like Cocaine and Meth curb the appetite. There have to be safer drugs that have similar appetite suppressing effects. People should then be given access to these drugs.
Greedy farmers who are the directly responsible for the high food prices need to be called in to answer for the high prices. Farmers are demanding more money for the same product. This isn’t right. If they’re not going to give us fair prices for their products, then our governments should take the surplus profit through the enactment of taxes and fees that will insure farmers don’t get any more than they deserve.
There are some who disagree with my progressive ideas above. I’ve heard their backwards arguments and ideas such as growing more of our own food. This idea won’t work. It takes a good two to three years before a field will start yielding a crop. It won’t help us now. Moreover, creating new fields will tear up the precious environment that in this era of Global Warming needs to be preserved.
My question now: why is this bad food policy good energy policy?
LIKE HELL!!! It's to keep the liberal leftist pseudo communist enviro-wackos happy.
If everybody will just relax a minute, the smugglers, thieves and black market will kick in and everything will be fine.
BTW Good Post and thanks. (Sorry about the drift).........
The unintended consequence of OPEC greed — is that the world will become far more independent of middle east oil —— and the bastards will have to find a way to eat petroleum products.
Sounds to me like fertile ground for a revolution,or a war,or a plague, if history is any guide.