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It is not food rationing, it is the wholesalers stopping businesses from hoarding and short supplying clubs...thus shorting their stock for the average family shopper. Yall need to get a grip and get educated. Posts like these is what feeds the fear and the mad dash for supplies, creating a shortage, thus driving up prices. OMG PEOPLE!!!!
I'm not running for supplies. Already have +/- 1 year's worth of basics (the ant versus grasshopper way of doing things), and am planting a big garden and plan to hunt this year to offset prices/shortages. This shortage thing may turn into nothing, but it could be the sign of bigger problems coming...
Seems America is about to go on a diet. Goodbye obesity epidemic!
There is no way this will happen. What I am trying to say, as a country we are to greedy, demanding, self impressed, and spoiled not to get what we need. It started when we demanded freedom from England. Think we can get that tea back?
Solutions to possible food shortage....Lets look to our history.....
If we see a shortage we will do what we do best, invade a country under false pretenses to get what we want. Go ahead and take the Big Mac out of an American's hand to give to Somolians or Hatians, watch it be pulled back bloodied.
Let's restart indenture servitude for access to this country. We all share crop and sell our goods to our our own wealthy at a steep price since they gouged us at the pump and with wholesale prices....Let the poor poeple hold the rich for randsom by farming this land again.
OMG I sound like a bitter Democrat with out her burger.
This is all over CNN, NBC, FOXNEWS and other media outlets. Those of you who made fun at my original posting....take warning ! This is only going to get worse...mark my words !
Brown and white rices store very differently. Brown rice is only expected to store for 6 months under average conditions. This is because of the essential fatty acids in brown rice. These oils quickly go rancid as they oxidize. It will store much longer if refrigerated. White rice has the outer shell removed along with those fats. Because of this, white rice isn't nearly as good for you, but will store longer. Hermetically sealed in the absence of oxygen, plan on a storage life for white rice of 8-10 years at a stable temperature of 70 degrees F. It should keep proportionately longer if stored at cooler temperatures. Stored in the absence of oxygen, brown rice will last longer than if it was stored in air. Plan on 1 to 2 years. It is very important to store brown rice as cool as possible, for if you can get the temperature down another ten degrees, it will double the storage life again.
There is no way this will happen. What I am trying to say, as a country we are to greedy, demanding, self impressed, and spoiled not to get what we need. It started when we demanded freedom from England. Think we can get that tea back?
Solutions to possible food shortage....Lets look to our history.....
If we see a shortage we will do what we do best, invade a country under false pretenses to get what we want. Go ahead and take the Big Mac out of an American's hand to give to Somolians or Hatians, watch it be pulled back bloodied.
Let's restart indenture servitude for access to this country. We all share crop and sell our goods to our our own wealthy at a steep price since they gouged us at the pump and with wholesale prices....Let the poor poeple hold the rich for randsom by farming this land again.
OMG I sound like a bitter Democrat with out her burger.
Sarcastic post BTW
Theoretically the rural people can hold the urban people hostage so to speak, but the government will come down on the side of the wealthy and the urban dwellers.
I thought your post was funny in a real sort of way. Except for the indentured servant part a/k/a slavery, not so funny. But good post nonetheless!
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Originally Posted by CreditWitch
There is no way this will happen. What I am trying to say, as a country we are to greedy, demanding, self impressed, and spoiled not to get what we need. It started when we demanded freedom from England. Think we can get that tea back?
Solutions to possible food shortage....Lets look to our history.....
If we see a shortage we will do what we do best, invade a country under false pretenses to get what we want. Go ahead and take the Big Mac out of an American's hand to give to Somolians or Hatians, watch it be pulled back bloodied.
Let's restart indenture servitude for access to this country. We all share crop and sell our goods to our our own wealthy at a steep price since they gouged us at the pump and with wholesale prices....Let the poor poeple hold the rich for randsom by farming this land again.
OMG I sound like a bitter Democrat with out her burger.
All I really want to know is how I can blame this on George Bush. Does anyone have any ideas how I can do that?
I don't know, does he own any rice paddies in Texas? Do we have "strategic reserves" of rice that he won't let up on? I'm sure we can pin it on him somehow! North Korea has rice... I've got an idea....
Are we going to see an OPEC style cartel with rice? OREC?
Seriously, I'll bet people will see the opportunity. As rice demand & prices go up, supply will come along and the "invisible hand" will do what it does. However, I have heard that as stocks, debt securities and real estate keep flopping, commodities will be where speculators go next. That could cause problems. We may not be able to blame Bush, but we can blame the rich (investors). That'll be a good vent of frustration over being broke.
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