Drudge: America faces food rationing?

they could possibly use HAARP to genarate differences in air pressures to get desired winds/storms.



they created avian flu, made the bees vanish, and maybe foot and mouth disease too? who knows.

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.

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

Starving people are angry people,starving people become raving maniacs

see the polite guy ? ,well the polite guy will break in to your house and stomp on your face to steal your food,the polite guy will kick your head in and rip your eye balls out when he is hungry

If you have food keep it quiet,or you will regret it

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

It's not just food...but any necessity that not readily available and it isn't just the bad guys looking to take what you have.

After returning to the city just after Katrina, the cops spotted our filled gas cans tied down on the roof of our car. They asked for our gas!

I agree without armed force to protect the bread givers, i imagine it would be less of a line and more of a circle of people clambering over and into each other.It's amazing when that happens how weak the human body turns out to be against the combined weight of other human bodies.

This is scary. What kind of foods should you start buying now and keeping? Bottled water? Cans of food?

Just hunt. Bag a 300lb deer or two a season. Who needs bread and rice

then hunt humans, if im hungry, wont hestitate to bag a few hippies for dinner.

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.

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MONSANTO COME TO MIND?

This is a massive story




Yep. Remember it next fall when we're all in bread lines.

This is scary. What kind of foods should you start buying now and keeping? Bottled water? Cans of food?