MORE MEGA-RICE DOOM! INSIDER SAYS THERE WILL BE A SHORTAGE. 2 MONTH WINDOW.

watching the rice futures will be a telling sign

3 billion of the worlds 6 billion depend on rice as a staple in their diet

not kidding this time

oh shit, the Asians aren't going to like this.

no doubt. i don't think americans realize the importance of rice anymore since it's not a hamburger or chicken mcnuggets.

lol the asians have plenty of rice to keep for themselves. the question is, will they share it and put it on our muti-billion dollar tab?

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.........DOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

NO RICE BALLS!!!
NO SUSHI!
NO BREAKFAST!

better stock up on whale meat

I'm a rich man now.

We can always borrow the money from China to buy the rice from China, to sell the rice to China, so they can sell the rice to us, so we can sell the rice to Wall Street, so the banks can make money to loan to China, so we can borrow the money from China, to buy the rice from China, so we can sell the rice to.......

ah fuck the damn rice....

Glad I bought 100 lbs of rice this weekend. :)

hope the price rockets through the roof cause 3 billion people actiing out all at once should be great entertainment

Rice is boring...I usually just shove it to the side and go for the main course...

i believe that virtually all of the rice that (in the usa) we eat is grown in california--however the price will undoubtedly skyrocket because of heavier demand from asia.

no shit..I got 300 lbs of it stuffed away FWIW

what??? california??? you better check again buddy.

that's like eating picante sauce made in new york city.

what if it had a gravy made from the meat grease on top?

Then I believe I'd push the whole damned plate aside...

Hmmm... I guess I should be glad I have about 500lbs stored away?

"MORE MEGA-RICE DOOM! INSIDER SAYS THERE WILL BE A SHORTAGE. 2 MONTH WINDOW. - Democrats panic over rice cake shortage. Soy cake sales increase 10 fold!"

It does have a shelf life, fyi.

This sucks for me since I don't eat gluten so rice is my main carb. Guess I will be going down to Costco for a couple of big bags, unless the ethnic people here already cleaned the shelves. That happened during the last rice panic.

I got that far.

[link to www.newsweek.com]

When all goes well, thunderheads tower above India's southwestern state of Kerala in early June, drenching the region's vital rice fields and ensuring a bountiful harvest. From there the summer monsoon plods northward to soak the baking plains and irrigate vital breadbasket regions that feed 1.1 billion people before arriving at the foot of the Himalayas in August. Forecasting this complex meteorological process has always been an obsession within India, but this year the world will be watching. Changes in the monsoon cycle can shrink India's total grain harvest by up to 20 percent, creating a shortfall of 30 million metric tons. During India's last crop failure, in 2002, the country had a massive reserve to fall back on. "Now," says Usha Tuteja, an agricultural economist at Delhi University, "we don't have enough buffer stocks to make up for one bad year."


See, Indians had crop failures as has China and Thailand. Now, the MSM sounded an alarm bell in 2008, but Americans, and the Western world in general sat idle by and did nothing to prepare.

See, Americans don't see how this is going to effect them and it is! Very deeply! Our food prices are set to skyrocket because commodities traders are ready to pounce on this sort of news.

They don't give two shits that 500 million people could starve to death. Just give 'em their brownstones and IRoc Z's.

Pathetic.

It actually gets worse, look:
Thread: Philippines May Lose 600,000 Tons Rice as Supertyphoon Megi Makes Landfall


This is scary. A lot more people are going to starve this year.

maybe I can balance this equation....

rice doom = shtf soooon

no emergency rice supply = highest amount of casualties

people who are still unprepared = fucked

Last Edited by C74R1TY-44 on 10/18/2010 09:43 AM

IIRC, last time there was rice shortage, the governments made sure everyone got enough rice so hopefully no one will be starving.

They got if from somewhere. If there isn't enough rice in the whole world, well that's a problem. They might have to learn to love corn and wheat.

thats 500 million less resource competitors , whats the problem? carrying capacity live within it or deal with the consequences

ok then. i'm really not bullshitting you though.

Last Edited by 1-2-Follow on 10/18/2010 09:48 AM

Here is a likely scenario..

Most rice produced in the Philippine is exported because of its quality. (This is how it is going on now.)

The Philippines imports a LOT of rice from Thailand and other SE Asian nations because it is cheaper than the rice produced in the Philippines, and to meet consumption needs.

If the Philippine crop were to be destroyed, the farmers will keep what remains for themselves and for planting. Hopefully they don't need to buy more seed.

The rice commodity goes way up due to demand not being met. Philippine rice is a sought after commodity.

The Philippines works to buy rice from other neighboring countries, and this is the crux. Will the neighboring countries have the rice? Is there enough stored rice in the Philippines? What nations will suffer from not getting Philippine rice? There is a major Asian rice trading network, but there comes a point where all demands cannot be met

OP, if you heard it then you must have heard NUMBERs and DATEs when the shortage happens.

Prove that you have them.