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On Apr 24, 3:34 am, wrote:
The per usual republicrat farm socialism has created food supply
chaos, subsidized corn for ethanol fuel has crowded out other food
crops, speculators abroad have taken their bales of dollarpesos and
bought out our wheat supplies so that we'll have to re-import at a
higher price. Gov't. has paid southeast Texas farmers to raise
livestock instead of rice, now Sam's Club and Costco are rationing
it. So I tossed the ornamental plants and have planted corn, beans,
peppers, and tomatoes, maybe carrots next. I recommend others do the
same this season in their backyards if they have them. I don't think
there will be acute food shortages this year in the USA, but grocery
prices are high and getting higher. It will also save the fossile
fuel to get it from the farm to your table. I would raise meat but
codes in my 'burb won't allow it.

Grocery prices are "high?"

Yes, and getting higher.

We've got the cheapest food supply in the world, and a long way to go
before that's no longer true.

That's only a reasonable argument if we lived elsewhere in the world. We
don't. We live in America and our life-style and econmics are based in
America.

Everywhere else in the world food, fuel, and taxes eat up most of a
family's income. Here we whine and cry about how food is sooooo
expensive when we have to pay 25 cents more for a gallon of milk.

Already addressed above.

My father has spent his entire life dirt poor working his ass off on a
farm to provide you with that cheap food. My mother has spent the last
35 years dirt poor and has worked herself almost to death to provide
you with that cheap food. My brother and sister grew up dirt poor
working their asses off on the farm to provide you with that cheap
food. I grew up dirt poor working my ass off on the farm to provide
you with that cheap food.

Every night at supper, part of the Thanks I offer is for those who grow our
food. However, unless you live in China, you and your family are not
required to farm; you have made that choice. The fact that you choose to
make your living growing food is yours alone. The orchardists and wheat
farmers in my area don't spend a whole lot of time feeling sorry for
themselves or complaining about the row they've chosen to hoe.

You make me sick.

It's from ulcers. You need a new line of work.

--
Dave www.davebbq.com

What is best in life? "To crush your enemies, see them driven before
you, and to hear the lamentation of the women." -- Conan