Posted on 05/08/2007 6:02:49 PM PDT by Flavius
Australia’s having a very bad draught which will (or is already) affecting crops, including wheat. US wheat reserves are at an all time low.
Wheat is about the most basic foodstuff there is, besides rice in Asia.
Sorry, I meant “doing”
I agree. Thanks for the ping on this. It’s helpful to keep an eye on it all.
Sadly, though, it’s reinforcing the thinking I had when I decided to become more food independent. A couple years ago, when we moved, I started buying things like strawberry plants, blueberry, raspberry, and blackberry bushes. I’ve started gardening more seriously and am learning about more sources for food here out in the country. I figured that between rising gas prices and how far it is to the nearest grocery store, I needed to do more of my own. I never thought of the things we’re hearing about today.
My solution has been to become very well armed while making a list of people like you who I can shoot when the "end" comes and then take all your stuff....*
* Just joking. Really....
I guess the plant genetics types had best get to work and solve this problem like they have solved many similar problems over the past several hundred years.
We are hanging in here.
Have a few low key guests coming in to check on how we are doing.
Ok when awake but I get really depressed/stressed when sleeping.
He is status quo and comfortable.
Praying for cognitive years to come if physical endurance stays low.
Let Go and Letting God....
Thanks for asking.
Prayers coming your way.
According to the news that I've seen Hershey's is fixing to close its Reading PA plant, and outsource to India, Mexico, and -- you guessed it China.
So there goes some of the chocolate.
Thanks for the ping mom.
I’ve beent thinking about both of you too but didn’t want to bother you.
You are both in my thoughts and prayers.
Dots, dots - everywhere -- dots! (Connect?)
Did you see the article about canadian farmed fish that was fed contaminated feed from China?
First bees and pollinated food crops, then pet food, then pork, then chicken then fish. Now the wheat crop here is going to fail too?
We’ll all be scratching for grubs soon to feed our families.
“free trade” is certainly grand isn’t it? They ‘freely trade’ their poisoned food for our most favored nation status, our tax money to support gobalization and our income to feed our families.
It makes me sick. I just want to plant “China Sucks” signs everywhere.
Not the chocolate! Them’s fighten words!
No Blade of Gress - John Christopher 1956.
When the virus first strikes the planet, it strikes only one variety of grass: rice. The hardest hit country is China, where unmistakable government dogma outlaw poverty and famine as if the very elements of nature are subject to human decree. The Chinese government thus has to choose between two unpalatable options: admitting that its official policies are unworkable because they do not reflect environmental factors, or letting its citizens starve to death. As a sign of the contemporary views of Chinese communism, Christopher’s China stands by the decree and their people die in the millions as nature overrules the petty commands of government.
In England, the informed citizens discuss the situation in China, decrying its shortsightedness and inflexibility, but as something far away that is unlikely to affect them in their civilized world. Rice, after all, is hardly a staple in the West, and capitalistic governments are far more sensible than Mao’s China.
It spreads to the rest of the world. No spoiler, but potatoes are an important plot point.
Came out long before King’s “The Stand”. Good read with strong characters.
I dunno, remember the snakehead.
” The threat will be discussed Aug. 1 in San Diego during a joint meeting of The American Phytopathological Society and the Society of Nematologists.”
I wonder if they are bringing samples...
Thanks.
Staying low stress mode.
God gives us what we can handle - in a sense. It seems (anyway, in my life) He often brings me to a point that I feel I can bear no more - and then I’m really brought to a point of deeper prayer, and then - He changes things. And “things” can be inner change, I see things differently, my heart just is lightened.
You’re never alone and you’re never forgotten.
Just keep them away from the chocolate, the steak, and the hops. According to the news that I've seen Hershey's is fixing to close its Reading PA plant, and outsource to India, Mexico, and -- you guessed it China. So there goes some of the chocolate.And in other news, German brewers are complaining about the low supply and high price of hops. The reason is that more and more croplands are being used to produce biofuels.
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