Food shortages
I heard the darndest thing today on TV news about how the oil prices have created food shortages!
Basically it seems that many big farmers, in he USA anyway, raised more corn than usual since oil has caused this commodity to be worth more than any other food.
I suppose many reasons will be put forth as to a food shortage if one presents itself!
However, in the past every time something needed the price raised it suddenly was deemed scarce!
Gas in the seventies, and coffee and sugar, many times.
There was no shortage for any of that--just held back until the price increased.
The history of food shortages shows that true shortages come truly from disease.
The potato blight in Ireland once for instance. And, the making of whiskey illegal in the USA. Many people went blind from heavy metal homemade booze.
I remember "Victory gardens" and "truck patches" in WW2, where nearly every vacant piece of land in this country was planted with seeds for food, either by the owner, or rented out.
The government bought most of that so as to have a say in how it was distributed and at what price. Otherwise a few capitalists would soon hoard all the food and all the money.
Night slaughter ventures of beef certainly weren't unknown either. For the "black market" not for the soldiers!
I have my doubts such an emergency now exists that didn't already exist some time ago, as in Africa.
Look out for extreme food pricing!!!!!
We already have extreme gas pricing due to extreme oil pricing.
I thought that was what we hoped to prevent Saddam from doing! No?
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