This is an absolute recipe for disaster.
so what is the solution??? if you are fubo, you shut off the water to the central california valley to save some damn litte snail darter kind of fish....have you tried to buy celery lately??? I give you one guess as to why it is fast becoming a rare commodity...
I still have the rice & beans I bought for the 2008 famine.
Picking up a tiller on Monday. I’ve always known that it’s more expensive to grow a garden than buying at the local farmers’ market. But not when the farmers’ market has nothing to sell!
“And even the Fed’s phony measures show that vegetable prices are up 13%! “
It would help if the government allowed California produce growers to irrigate their land.
On the bright side, my local Costco is offering cuts of USDA PRIME Beef in the case alongside the usual selections of USDA Choice.
Thank the ruin-you-engine ethanol BS for this.
When it comes to food production....no move was dumber than shipping a large part of world ag production to Communist China
Communist China is leading Ag producer in the world now....and surpasses the US by a large margin. The Commie Chinese do it on a small amount of arable land (only 6% of Communist China is arable...land useful to grow crops)...much smaller amount than the US
Now, the US is an Ag importer...we get so much of our food from Communist China now...even though we produce enough to feed all Americans
Of course, the Free Trader Communists would whine “isolationism, protectionism” if we kept our American ag production for a wholly domestic market....even though the US would be hit hard by a production loss in Communist China. Keeping our Ag domestic would alleviate food shortages domestically, and, keep costs low when the food shortages come.
This is the brillance (/sarc) of Free Trade Communism: Take a self-sustaining nation and make it dependent on another. This is pretty much what the Free Trade Communists have done with much of the Third World Ag production....dumped non-market based cheap crops on poor countries....killing their domestic production.
Sad thing is that a lot of this food shortage could have been prevented.
When the Willamette Valley in Oregon is actually growing 100% food crops instead of grass seed, flowers, and ornamental trees and shrubs, AND there’s still a food shortage; I’ll start worrying.
Till then, it’s just inflation caused by the fires in Russia and increased fuel prices.
This is an absolute recipe for disaster.
Been following these stories for the past few weeks. They are increasing in frequency. What’s not mentioned is that, even with the rise in food prices, it can become much worse as availibility is compromised as people begin to HOARD.
In the old Soviet Union, you may recall that as one type of staple became AVAILABLE, food lines would develop as people scrambled to acquire it - bread, toilet paper, meat etc.
Speaking with a former Russian, he told me that NO ONE was starving. They were all simply HOARDING food because of the concern over availability...
We may not have been saving money, but Americans have, alas, been saving calories. We are as well prepared and plumped for a famine as any people in history. For all the liberal whining about “hunger” in this country, obesity is a much more common problem than starvation.