[GonzoGOP]

Not just Michele's food desert, but very real food shortages. It causes me to ponder if this effort by Michele is actually some what of a warning of things to come.

You may be on to something there. One of the best arguments about why the rural population would win in any total SHTF situation was that they had all the food. The Obama supporting urban populations would be starved out in only a few months after the transportation system broke down. And it is easy for rebels to bring down a transport system.

So now suddenly Obama is growing food in his strongholds. He may see a SHTF situation on the way sometime after November 2012.

[patton]

3 days, not a few months.

But, it occurs to me, you could plant dent corn for ethonol on these plots - humans can’t digest dent corn, and who cares how polluted the soil is?

[EBH]

Google urban food gardening and you might find it a bit uncomfortable to consider the possibility that this is all a set-up to establish subsistence food security.

These are already widely used in Cuba, Venezuela, Congo, Ghana, China etc. all supported through the UN.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38691&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo

Now don’t forget about that change in the farming laws that we were all up in arms about. You know, The Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510), which ramped up regulation of small farms. 0bama signed that on 1/4/2011.

This regulation will establish mandatory, science-based, minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, sorting, packing, and storage of fresh fruits and vegetables. “This will be a monumental shift in food safety,” says James R. Gorny, Ph.D., FDA’s senior advisor for produce safety. http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm262031.htm

Almost sounds like it is going to be too costly and create food shortages due to regulation and farmers refusing to farm. Growing local will become the norm not the exception.