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World braced for new food crisis
Financial Times ^
| July 19, 2012
| Jack Farchy and Gregory Meyer
Posted on 07/20/2012 7:24:27 AM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando
As long as we have enough CarterOil for our gas tanks. Perhaps our Premier could stop the ethanol production to save the poor?
Pray for America
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posted on
07/20/2012 7:35:59 AM PDT
by
bray
(If you vote for a Communist, what's that make you?)
To: Perseverando
The drought in the US, which supplies nearly half the worlds exports of corn and much of its soyabeans and wheatIs this the same U.S. hated and complained about by most of the world?
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posted on
07/20/2012 7:37:29 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
(A)
To: Perseverando
Obama and Comnie Company suppose to launch a manufactured crisis.
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posted on
07/20/2012 7:38:00 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: bray
stop the ethanol production to save the poorgreat idea
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posted on
07/20/2012 7:53:50 AM PDT
by
ncpatriot
To: bray
As long as we have enough CarterOil for our gas tanks. I agree with that.
For more than 50 years we have shown the world how to produce more food than they can possibly eat, leaving huge surpluses that can be burned to heat homes and fuel vehicles.
Almost without fail, they have rejected our ideas.
There is a price for being foolishly, willfully, ignorant. In this case food shortages.
LET THE BASTARDS STARVE TO DEATH.
As long as we have enough CarterOil for our gas tanks.
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posted on
07/20/2012 7:55:07 AM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
To: Balding_Eagle
Almost without fail, they have rejected our ideas. A teen friend has gone to Africa to show them how to dig wells. Another teen friend is helping in Taiwan. I tried to talk them out of these hair brained ideas and that there are people at home who need help. Sorry, but if these third world countries can't figure out how to dig a well and not poo in it after millions upon millions of years, there's no hope.
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posted on
07/20/2012 8:06:15 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: freekitty
The corn is high and doing well here. Rain is a little low, but nowhere near a draught in north Texas.
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posted on
07/20/2012 8:14:27 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: Kartographer
Thought you might be interested.
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posted on
07/20/2012 8:26:25 AM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: bgill
I feel the same way. I used to be very close with my cousins until I did not give them money for a mission trip to Mexico. That was probably 15 years ago. They go there now several times a year. Their mission group is ironically based out of one of the poorest areas of Tennessee. I have chosen to work at my church’s soup kitchen and work the register at the diocese’s thrift store, and I am smiled at in condescending fashion because I “only” serve sloppy joes and hit register buttons. I don’t party like it’s 1499 in a drug war riddled third world country while my babies are at home wondering if mommy is stll alive.
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posted on
07/20/2012 8:34:11 AM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: Perseverando
Simple. Stop burning food stocks and stop giving free food to countries that hate (or even mildly dislike) us.
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posted on
07/20/2012 8:36:37 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(zero slogan: Expect less, pay more. (apologies to Target))
To: MrEdd
Rain is a little low, but nowhere near a draught in north Texas.The crops are looking really bad from Northern KY north and from Ohio to west of the Mississippi river.
They don't even start looking normal until you get into northern Illinois or west to about 120 miles west of the Mississippi.
The USA is probably going to lose about 1/4 to 1/3 of its corn crop this year.
And if that area doesn't get some rain soon a large portion of the soybean crop is going to be gone also.
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posted on
07/20/2012 8:40:37 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Perseverando
I’ve got eight little coffee beans on my coffee tree - - it’s a first for the tree...
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posted on
07/20/2012 9:33:54 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Political correctness is simply George Orwell's Newspeak by a non-threatening name. FR- Bernard Marx)
To: bray
As long as we have enough CarterOil for our gas tanks. Perhaps our Premier could stop the ethanol production to save the poor?
Good idea. Also, we can divert water from rivers and lakes if we can to get water to the crops and I've even suggested water drops from old airplanes (B-17's, DC-4's, Super Connies, etc)
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posted on
07/20/2012 9:52:28 AM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: GOPJ
Bravo! I seethe with jealousy.
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posted on
07/20/2012 10:02:55 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
To: Perseverando
In 2007-08, a rise in prices triggered food riots from Bangladesh to Haiti as the number of hungry people in the world surpassed 1bn. However, economists point out that supplies of rice and to a lesser extent wheat key staples for many of the worlds poorest people remain abundant, subduing prices. Many/most/all of these places in no way have the per-capita resources to generate enough value to make transporting food to there worthwhile. Haiti can sustain around 3 million people; population there is 10 million ... do the math.
Brutal dictatorships/rebels using food as a weapon doesn't make it any better. Insofar as large volumes of food do get sent to such locations, all too often it just rots in port waiting for the right palms to get greased.
The solution? MOVE. The land can't support the population, and the governments won't support the population. A basic rule of survival is "don't be where trouble is".
In other news, South Dakota can't get enough laborers for any economic strata. Good money may be had for reasonable effort if only one moves there.
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posted on
07/20/2012 10:13:19 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
To: bray
Many are shutting down now. Most will be down by the end of the year.
The large wet mills that make sugar are in trouble also. To high of a price to pay for feed stock. Livestock producers are cutting herds as we speak. With the mills shutting or slowing down, they can't afford to feed the animals.
Food is going up. This was supposed to be another record year, and a lot of contracts were signed at the “projected” prices. When you gamble, you loose sometimes.
I just wonder how many farmers will go under this year.
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posted on
07/20/2012 12:53:57 PM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: Nowhere Man
What is sad is that just across the Mississippi in Illinois, they are diverting 500 million gallons to fill a lake. The reason? Some fancy boat race. Farmers up and down stream have had their irrigation turned off by the state, but by God we will have a boat race!
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posted on
07/20/2012 12:57:57 PM PDT
by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: ctdonath2
The solution? MOVE. The land can't support the population, and the governments won't support the population. A basic rule of survival is "don't be where trouble is".
The old Sam Kinison idea, get on the truck and "we'll take you to where the food is." Good idea.
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posted on
07/20/2012 1:30:39 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
To: redgolum
What is sad is that just across the Mississippi in Illinois, they are diverting 500 million gallons to fill a lake. The reason? Some fancy boat race. Farmers up and down stream have had their irrigation turned off by the state, but by God we will have a boat race!
That is insane! BTW, I deliver auto parts, I cross the Ohio River umpteen times a day and I drive by a marker that shows the height of the river. It looks a bit low to me.
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posted on
07/20/2012 1:32:41 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
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