Start stocking up on food NOW.

[Jeremy]

Seems to be the way it always goes.

Guy on the street: No drilling in Anwar, why not?

Enviro guy: It's a polar bear habitat.

Guy on the street: Oh. Can't we move them somewhere?

Enviro guy: No.

Guy on the street: Okay, let's fucking bomb Iraq then, Iran if necessary.

Enviro guy: That's the spirit! Fuck people and the economy, I care about polar bears. Snuggly, cuddly polar bears. And there is no compromise.

Guy on the street: How about that war in Iraq?

Enviro guy: Bush is a murdering, treasonous baby-killing asswipe who lied to get into war! We all know this is a war for oil! Impeach him. RALPH NADER 08!

Guy on the street: *headslap*

Wow... that basically sums up my experience with people. Except instead of saying something about Nadar, they praise the democrat party. Well I live in a blue state =o

 

[RonPaulVolunteer]

I was being sarcastic.

Oh, sorry buddy :o

 

[Karakia]

Screw stocking up for myself. What about the people in third world countries that were starving before? They will be feeling it twice as bad. I hate how nobody cares until they start feeling the pinch themselves. Crazy world we live in.

 

[JosephTheLibertarian]

Start clippin those coupons boys n girlz

I already do.

 

[billjarrett]

Granted, I only work in the IT department.. But I am currently working for a large grocery warehouse/distribution company (large profit wise, our office is pretty small).

If something this earth shattering were going on, our whole office would know about it. Although theres alot of grumbling about food prices, that's been going on for the last year. None of our buyers have given any sign that the world is coming to an end this weekend.

 

[Pauls' Revere]

I like potatos!

 

[jbuttell]

It's not environmentalists, it's government subsidies.

Of course the environmentalists never lobby the government for things like that. It's got electrolytes?

 

[asgardshill]

This food riot thing has definite possibilities. Such as a steel cage match - each contestant gets a 10-pound bag of potatoes and must decide whether to use them to beat his opponent senseless thereby scoring BOTH bags, wield the potatoes individually as melee weapons, or simply take his taters and run. Or hang a T-bone steak above the center of the Octagon with a ladder nearby - first one up the ladder gets it. (For Sweeps Week, substitute a side of beef for the steak). Instead of "Where's Waldo?", we could have "Where's Similac Baby Formula?" Think of the cake walk at your local county fair, only with strategy and steel chairs.

I can see the Food Network gaining new popularity (and audience), especially if they bring UFC or the WWE in for technical advice.

 

[Tarzan]

Screw stocking up for myself. What about the people in third world countries that were starving before? They will be feeling it twice as bad. I hate how nobody cares until they start feeling the pinch themselves. Crazy world we live in.

Screw the third world countries. If they would stop popping out babies like pez dispensers they might be able to feed themselves. And if they kept their pistols in their pockets they would have a lot less problems with killer diseases.

We don't need 6+ billion people on the globe. And we don't need people who can't feed themselves dumping out babies they can't feed either. When we send aid every time there is a hunger crisis we perpetuate the problem... and the population grows even more... and the problem becomes worse. We have done this time after time and learned nothing. It is a matter of personal and societal responsibility.

Until the third world (and we) learns the hard lessons we will continue to repeat these types of disastrous mistakes. It is an unfortunate part of human nature.

 

[Kilrain]

Screw the third world countries. If they would stop popping out babies like pez dispensers they might be able to feed themselves. And if they kept their pistols in their pockets they would have a lot less problems with killer diseases.

We don't need 6+ billion people on the globe. And we don't need people who can't feed themselves dumping out babies they can't feed either. When we send aid every time there is a hunger crisis we perpetuate the problem... and the population grows even more... and the problem becomes worse. We have done this time after time and learned nothing. It is a matter of personal and societal responsibility.

Until the third world (and we) learns the hard lessons we will continue to repeat these types of disastrous mistakes. It is an unfortunate part of human nature.

"If you subsidize something, you get more of it"

Sound like anyone you know?

Ethiopia had like 40 million people when we had Live Aid. Now there's 65+ million people there. Not sustainable... Anyone who's been to a third world country that relies on foreign aid should realize that it's just stupid and counter-productive. I still remember my visit to Haiti like ten years ago. It all just made me want to cry, mainly from anger.

 

[freelance]

By golly, TPTB have come to our rescue:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/17/do1702.xml

Problem > Reaction > Solution

Talk about Internet time--when did this scare reach hysterical proportion? Less than a week ago? Isn't it amazing that within ONE week of a food shortage, we have GM crops to the rescue.

 

[Anti Federalist]

By golly, TPTB have come to our rescue:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/17/do1702.xml

Problem > Reaction > Solution

Talk about Internet time--when did this scare reach hysterical proportion? Less than a week ago? Isn't it amazing that within ONE week of a food shortage, we have GM crops to the rescue.

Yah, and used shoppers club d-bases to make sure you only buy just enough:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=133855

 

[Give me liberty]

What about water?

Should we stock up water to?

 

[Karakia]

The problem with third world countries in general isn't the people, it's the government. You can't blame uneducated masses for doing what comes naturally to them :/ In africa there is more than enough money to sustain the entire country but it goes into the pockets of corrupt politicians. There is lack of basic needs like Electricity, Refridgeration and water.

my point was simply that people that could afford to buy rice before, just barely, will now be starving becuase the prices are doubling and supply is short.

What does America have to worry about? It has twinkies!