IIRC, `famine’ in Russian is `golod’. Bread made from sawdust was called `golodny khleb’ meaning `famine bread’.Mmmmm. Sawdust bread. Can I get some spiced up with melamine?In Ukrainian that `g’ converts to a guttural to give `holod’. The transliterated word `holodomor’ is entirely consistent to describe the horror of the NKVD-induced famine in Ukraine in the drive toward forced collectivization in the 1930’s.
Exactly. We can expect to find more and more versions of (siege of) “Leningrad Bread” on our grocery shelves as inflation rises and the economy worsens.
The author of the piece twists herself into verbal knots dancing around the issue but it’s basically all about cellulose being cheaper and easier to handle than the good stuff. I read about cellulose being sold as dietary fiber almost thirty years ago in the health food mags. I’m sure they had their own prejudices but the gist of it was that humans cannot process sawdust unlike the fiber of fruits and veggies. As for the other uses, it’s stated baldly that sawdust is cheaper than the good stuff.
Just you wait. As things worsen, expect the great, benevolent Obama to start issuing soylent rations.
This was the very “extermination by hunger” that the leftist media at the time saw and denied (lie about) to the American people,
because the commies were/are their buddies.