DIYbanter - View Single Post - Food shortage ethanol follies, I've planted a food garden.

Rod Speed

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

True.

Everywhere else in the world food, fuel, and taxes eat up most of a family's income.

Nope, that doesnt happen in any other first world
country and none of the second world countrys either.

It isnt even true of much of the third world either.

Here we whine and cry about how food is sooooo expensive
when we have to pay 25 cents more for a gallon of milk.

My father has spent his entire life dirt poor working his
ass off on a farm to provide you with that cheap food.

If he's dirt poor, he's doing it wrong.

My mother has spent the last 35 years dirt poor and has worked
herself almost to death to provide you with that cheap food.

If she's dirt poor, she's doing it wrong.

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.

The problem is clearly in the genes.

You make me sick.

Your problem.