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Drudge: America faces food rationing?
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Amaruca
User ID: 420547
 United States
4/21/2008 3:37 PM
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growyourown growyourown growyourown! If you live in the city at least put some 5gal. buckets on your balcony/patio with tomatoes or something in it! Jeeze...sprouts, SOMETHING! There may/will come a time when half a tomoat in hot water is what you'll have to eat that day. Seriously. Think about it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11400
uhhh the sheep are not listening..
"God" said, let us make man in our image.. IMPLYING genetic hybridization
"I awoke only to find, that the rest of the world was still asleep" |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 293715
United States
4/21/2008 3:42 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
“Due to the limited availability of rice, we are limiting rice purchases based on your prior purchasing history,” a sign above the dwindling supply said. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 342843
Just in case you thought that club card wouldn't be used to learn you, track you, herd you and ultimately imprison/kill you, here's your wake up call. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 396816
 United Kingdom
4/21/2008 3:43 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
Drudge is linking to this story:
Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 342843
This is a big,big story,its a coming nightmare
Major retailers in freaking New York are rationing staple foods ?
New York is the worlds financial capital FFS |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 420564
United States
4/21/2008 3:57 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
“Due to the limited availability of rice, we are limiting rice purchases based on your prior purchasing history,”
KNOCK KNOCK ... THIS IS THE POLICE -- WE KNOW YOU ARE HOARDING RICE AND WHEAT AND WE HAVE A WARRANT TO SEARCH YOUR HOUSE FOR EVIDENCE OF OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THE NEW CRIMINAL HOARDING LAWS. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 396816
United Kingdom
4/21/2008 3:58 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
“Due to the limited availability of rice, we are limiting rice purchases based on your prior purchasing history,”
KNOCK KNOCK ... THIS IS THE POLICE -- WE KNOW YOU ARE HOARDING RICE AND WHEAT AND WE HAVE A WARRANT TO SEARCH YOUR HOUSE FOR EVIDENCE OF OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THE NEW CRIMINAL HOARDING LAWS. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 420564
do they have hoarding laws in the UK ?
your post has sent a chill down my spine |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 420500
United States
4/21/2008 3:59 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
This has me scared - and I bet the bread lines are going to be here a lot sooner than the fall of this year. MSM sits on these stories for weeks before cluing us in. Money is so tight that it is hard to find the extra money to eat week to week - let alone to stock up.
I wonder when this will affect Ohio? We are too close to NYC and New England.
AAAGGGHHH!!!!! Quoting: Hungry 420487
Hopefully my rations will be more than I can afford to buy right now which isn't much. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 420564
United States
4/21/2008 4:01 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
“Due to the limited availability of rice, we are limiting rice purchases based on your prior purchasing history,”
KNOCK KNOCK ... THIS IS THE POLICE -- WE KNOW YOU ARE HOARDING RICE AND WHEAT AND WE HAVE A WARRANT TO SEARCH YOUR HOUSE FOR EVIDENCE OF OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THE NEW CRIMINAL HOARDING LAWS.
do they have hoarding laws in the UK ?
your post has sent a chill down my spine Quoting: Anonymous Coward 396816
Philippines threatens rice hoarders with life imprisonment
[link to blogs.usatoday.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 317826
 Finland
4/21/2008 4:01 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
good for you, americans are FAT! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 419885
 Spain
4/21/2008 4:05 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
Yep. Remember it next fall when we're all in bread lines.
I wonder how orderly the bread lines will be ?
I should imagine there will be people being trampled on and yobs stamping on each other fighting over a crust of bread,this is what we have to face Quoting: Anonymous Coward 396816
Remember how people were trampled over xboxes and playstations? |
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RHSC
User ID: 416100
United States
4/21/2008 4:05 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
I really hate it when someone tells me they can't afford to stock up or buy extra. I always call bullshit on that. Sorry.
Why? Because all anyone has to do is cut out some of the CRAP they eat (the fast foods, the prepped and packaged foods, the condiments, the chips and sodas and fancy water) for a few days at a time, and they CAN afford to put aside beans, rice, flour, sugar, salt, powdered milk, shortening and veggie oils, powdered eggs, etc.
Give up something you do not NEED, and you will be able to afford more of what you do need.
Buy FRESH ingredients and cook a few meals from scratch, and you've saved enough for several bags of rice or beans.
If I can do it, anyone can do it.
There's plenty of information on the Internet about how to buy food storage and afford it. Only the lazy dare say it can't be done. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 306270
 Canada
4/21/2008 4:07 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
“Due to the limited availability of rice, we are limiting rice purchases based on your prior purchasing history,”
KNOCK KNOCK ... THIS IS THE POLICE -- WE KNOW YOU ARE HOARDING RICE AND WHEAT AND WE HAVE A WARRANT TO SEARCH YOUR HOUSE FOR EVIDENCE OF OTHER VIOLATIONS OF THE NEW CRIMINAL HOARDING LAWS. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 420564
Bingo |
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* <-----star of destiny
User ID: 418811
United States
4/21/2008 4:07 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
People want machines and food ....YOU CANT HAVE BOTH !!!! FOOD IS ORGANIC ....MACHINES ARE NOT !!!!
SOMETHING TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, AWFUL GOING TO HAPPEN.
AND AS I HAVE ALWAYS SAID ...WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE THE STUFF OVER THE PEOPLE ! LOL ..BECAUSE YOUUUU MY DEAR FRIEND ARE NOT THAT IMPORTANT COMPARED TO SOMEONES MECHANIZED PIECE OF CRAP !
THE STUFF !!! LOL THE STUFF !! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 296874
United States
4/21/2008 4:17 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
You do realize that because it is posted here on GLP, that the GLP effect in is play and no doom will come out of any of this. Dont buy food!!!  |
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* <----star of destiny
User ID: 418811
United States
4/21/2008 4:19 PM
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You do realize that because it is posted here on GLP, that the GLP effect in is play and no doom will come out of any of this. Dont buy food!!!
You are such an idiot ...many things predicted here came true.
YOu just see what you want to see and believe what you want.
And besides in the few years that GLP is nothing in the grand scheme of time and eventually MOST things predicted here will come true. Because all things take to happen is time. Time is the key factor.
Man's symbiotic connection with the cosmos will be known and there is nothing which can stop that knowing. Because everything we all do everyday helps confirm that truth. It is just that we haven't reached the pinnacle of where it leads. But we will soon enough. We will either live or die with that knowledge. Between Heaven and Earth is us.
Be brave young warriors in truth.
[link to www.youtube.com]
Only a miracle will save us now.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788 - 1860) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 396816
United Kingdom
4/21/2008 4:22 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
You do realize that because it is posted here on GLP, that the GLP effect in is play and no doom will come out of any of this. Dont buy food!!!
Food riots and food shortages all over the Globe are reality
This is the REAL DEAL
when Major retailers in New York are rationing food,you know that something big time is going on |
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chephzibah.
User ID: 410736
United States
4/21/2008 4:22 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
there would be riots for sure. take away the rights but when so many people are overweight here, it'd be like tryin to take the food out of a junk-yard dogs mouth.
the "emperors" have no clothes! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 415655
Canada
4/21/2008 4:25 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
Look at the story under it to understand what it's all about...
Drudge has it labeled "CRISIS WEAKENS OPPOSITION TO BIOTECH CROPS...
In lean times, biotech grains are less taboo
By Andrew Pollack
Published: April 21, 2008
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Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.
In Japan and South Korea, some manufacturers for the first time have begun buying genetically engineered corn for use in soft drinks, snacks and other foods. Until now, to avoid consumer backlash, the companies have paid extra to buy conventionally grown corn. But with prices having tripled in two years, it has become too expensive to be so finicky.
"We cannot afford it," said a corn buyer at Kato Kagaku, a Japanese maker of corn starch and corn syrup.
In the United States, wheat growers and marketers, once hesitant about adopting biotechnology because they feared losing export sales, are now warming to it as a way to bolster supplies. Genetically modified crops contain genes from other organisms to make the plants resistance to insects, herbicides or disease. Opponents continue to worry that such crops have not been studied enough and that they might pose risks to health and the environment.
"I think it's pretty clear that price and supply concerns have people thinking a little bit differently today," said Steve Mercer, a spokesman for U.S. Wheat Associates, a federally supported cooperative that promotes American wheat abroad.
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The group, which once cautioned farmers about growing biotech wheat, is working to get seed companies to restart development of genetically modified wheat and to get foreign buyers to accept it.
Even in Europe, where opposition to what the Europeans call Frankenfoods has been fiercest, some prominent government officials and business executives are calling for faster approvals of imports of genetically modified crops. They are responding in part to complaints from livestock producers, who say they might suffer a critical shortage of feed if imports are not accelerated.
In Britain, the National Beef Association, which represents cattle farmers, issued a statement this month demanding that "all resistance" to such crops "be abandoned immediately in response to shifts in world demand for food, the growing danger of global food shortages and the prospect of declining domestic animal production."
The chairman of the European Parliament's agriculture committee, Neil Parish, said that as prices rise, Europeans "may be more realistic" about genetically modified crops: "Their hearts may be on the left, but their pockets are on the right."
With food riots in some countries focusing attention on how the world will feed itself, biotechnology proponents see their chance. They argue that while genetic engineering might have been deemed unnecessary when food was abundant, it will be essential for helping the world cope with the demand for food and biofuels in the decades ahead.
Through gene splicing, the modified crops now grown — mainly canola, corn, cotton and soybeans — typically contain bacterial genes that help the plants resist insects or tolerate a herbicide that can be sprayed to kill weeds while leaving the crop unscathed. Biotechnology companies are also working on crops that might need less water or fertilizer, which could have a bigger impact on improving yield.
Certainly any new receptivity to genetically modified crops would be a boon to American exporters. The United States accounted for half the world's acreage of biotech crops last year.
But substantial amounts of corn, soy or canola are grown in Argentina, Brazil and Canada. China has developed insect-resistant rice that is awaiting regulatory approval in that country.
The pressure to re-evaluate biotech comes as prices of some staples like rice and wheat have doubled in the last few months,...(MANUFACTURED?)... provoking violent protests in several countries including Cameroon, Egypt, Haiti and Thailand. Factors behind the price spikes include the diversion of crops to make biofuel, rising energy prices, growing prosperity in India and China, and droughts in some regions — including Australia, a major grain producer.
Biotechnology still certainly faces obstacles. Polls in Europe do not yet show a decisive shift in consumer sentiment, and the industry has had some recent setbacks. Since the beginning of the year France has banned the planting of genetically modified corn while Germany has enacted a law allowing for foods to be labeled as "GM free."
And a new international assessment of the future of agriculture, released last Tuesday, gave such tepid support to the role genetic engineering could play in easing hunger that biotechnology industry representatives withdrew from the project in protest. The report was a collaboration of more than 60 governments, with participation from companies and nonprofit groups, under the auspices of the World Bank and the United Nations.
(cont)...
[link to www.iht.com]
MONSANTO COME TO MIND? |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 176921
United States
4/21/2008 4:27 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
This more than likely is due to the production of Ethanol. Most farmers are growing corn for ethanol. Its subsidized and I am sure they reap some sort of tax break. The price of everything is going up as farmers grow corn for ethanol instead of other products. This is making it too expensive to feed cattle with corn too. Ethanol is a complete farce if you ask me. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 396816
United Kingdom
4/21/2008 4:28 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 420564
I wonder how many kilos of rice would be classed as hoarding,any idea ?
Ive got about 60 kilo,no big deal
i cant see the goverment taking a tadpole like me as a threat to the "system" |
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* <----star of destiny
User ID: 418811
United States
4/21/2008 4:30 PM
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This more than likely is due to the production of Ethanol. Most farmers are growing corn for ethanol. Its subsidized and I am sure they reap some sort of tax break. The price of everything is going up as farmers grow corn for ethanol instead of other products. This is making it too expensive to feed cattle with corn too. Ethanol is a complete farce if you ask me. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 176921
They really want to wipe out poor people.
Man's symbiotic connection with the cosmos will be known and there is nothing which can stop that knowing. Because everything we all do everyday helps confirm that truth. It is just that we haven't reached the pinnacle of where it leads. But we will soon enough. We will either live or die with that knowledge. Between Heaven and Earth is us.
Be brave young warriors in truth.
[link to www.youtube.com]
Only a miracle will save us now.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788 - 1860) |
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von Doom
User ID: 390332
United States
4/21/2008 4:33 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
The biotech angle is spot on.
I really think most of you do not understand the kind of ruthless people you are up against.
This is not a joke. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 396816
United Kingdom
4/21/2008 4:41 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
Look at the story under it to understand what it's all about...
Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.
and that they might pose risks to health and the environment.
"I think it's pretty clear that price and supply concerns have people thinking a little bit differently today," said Steve Mercer, a spokesman for U.S. Wheat Associates, a federally supported cooperative that promotes American wheat abroad.
Today in Business with Reuters
Bank of England acts to calm financial markets
Oil rises above $117 for the first time
UBS faults its risk management for subprime debacle Quoting: Anonymous Coward 415655
I think the real reason for these food shortages and food rationing is an engineered crisis to usher in the New World Order
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." David Rockefeller |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 404921
United States
4/21/2008 4:44 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
This is a massive story
Yep. Remember it next fall when we're all in bread lines. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 342843
shut up
as long as I have a secure job,...
fuck off |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 404067
United States
4/21/2008 4:53 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
The government still pays farmers enormous sums to let fields lie fallow and not plant crops. Ethanol is not the problem. Brazil has been energy self sufficient for many years by using ethanol - with no grain shortages resulting. We have an enormous capacity to produce crops for ourselves and export. All the problems we face now are manufactured. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 396816
United Kingdom
4/21/2008 4:54 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
The government still pays farmers enormous sums to let fields lie fallow and not plant crops. Ethanol is not the problem. Brazil has been energy self sufficient for many years by using ethanol - with no grain shortages resulting. We have an enormous capacity to produce crops for ourselves and export. All the problems we face now are manufactured. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 404067
True Dat |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 375440
United States
4/21/2008 4:54 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
tried to tell my mother about this she was more worried about getting her lawnmower prepared and said call me back
sigh |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 420010
United States
4/21/2008 4:55 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
And STILL you motherfuckers keep PUMPING OUT KIDS, as if it's some kind of contest.
You definitely deserve what your BRAINLESSNESS is about to come back to haunt you with.
Fucking idiots... |
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Solve_et_Coagula
User ID: 374190
 Switzerland
4/21/2008 4:59 PM | | Re: Drudge: America faces food rationing? | Quote |
Animals starve, when they're sick, in this way they cure themselves.
What animals know instinctively, human beings will learn again.
Human beings in most civilized countries are fat, overeaten and sick, staying alive only on medication...
Our souls cherish when we eat less/starve/fast... nature is very reasonable... accept everything what enters into your life, never question a "bad" situation, on the long run it always turns out to be good and helpful.... we're not yet evolved enough to see the beauty of nature... the Universe is perfect and beautiful... smile
I would even admit, that nowadays on our planet, more people are dying on overeating than on starving
Best wishes from Switzerland
LWWB
Roger |
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antwan
User ID: 420426
 Norway
4/21/2008 5:07 PM
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And STILL you motherfuckers keep PUMPING OUT KIDS, as if it's some kind of contest.
You definitely deserve what your BRAINLESSNESS is about to come back to haunt you with.
Fucking idiots... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 420010
AND THEY PUMP OUT THEIR KIDS TO IRAK FOR THE WAR .
AND FOR WHAT ? . SO THEY CAN GIVE SOME IRAKIS THEIR FREEDOM HAHAHAHAHHA
SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTT.
YOUNG REDNECKS WHO CANT GET A JOB ARE LISTED IN .
SMOOKE SOME WEED AND HAVE FUN .
T AINT GONNA LAST 4EVER |
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antwan
User ID: 420426
Norway
4/21/2008 5:11 PM
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CNN ON THE GLOBAL SEED VAULT
[link to www.godlikeproductions.com]
what a fucking crock of shit FROM BECKY ANDERSON
she tried to justify this existence of that vault by ''the popualation by 2050 being 9 billion'' and ''the idea of global warming and climate change'' ''which MAY affect us going forward'' ''and there's no more land'' ''which means the agricultural industry going forward is unsustainable''
THEN she says..
''the idea of THIS is that we will have the world's crops, or at least samples of the world's crops in case of some kind of disaster''
and she also says
''It's important, especially for the DEVELOPING world'' ???
JUST FUCKING TELL US WHAT YOU KNOW!!! |
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