Anyone See The ROUNDUP Commercial?

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

Vfem, you wouldn't want to see the RFD channel we get up here! we have satellite TV so we get some neat channels like that but they bombard you with the Round Up Ready stuff and other chemicals you wouldn't like to have around!

 

[vfem]

Seedcorn, you know better! $3 per acre for herbicides puts a lot of illegal aliens out of work. Get with the program!!!!

I'm sorry. I'll try to get with the program. Help me see the light.......

Just back from 3 day Ag show. #1 problem is huge food shortage in India, china, etc. Now that they've got most of our jobs, the people are getting ready to riot because they don't have ANY food. So governments are over here buying wheat, corn, soybeans. Think prices are high now, wait till June/July.

That's another problem, the prices are decided by the people at the top with the pens. So everything has to keep working harder and creating MORE MORE MORE... but they always just break even. Its the pen holders writing up the numbers who will take an increase in pay for the increase in demand.

If China and India want more food.... we'll swap them some of our jobs back.... other wise they can ask their bosses to plant a garden on the roofs of the tech buildings that decided the US was too expensive and to go take advantage of the poor countries and under pay the foreigners instead!

We need to put TARFs on these companies and what they are trying to sell now! JERKS!

Ok... rant over.

 

[Ridgerunner]

With the emergence of a middle class in China, India, and other emerging economies, price pressure on food will increase. I clearly remember that before Dad realized he could not send his kids to school off of subsistence farming and got a factory job, our normal supper was pinto beans, corn bread, milk, and a slice of raw onion. (I still enjoy that as a meal, by the way, just not every night.) Oh, once or twice a week we might have a piece of meat, fish, or chicken, but at least 5 and usually 6 night s a week, that was our basic supper. We did sometimes have green beans or other vegetables we canned from the garden, but not every night. My main point is that we did not have meat very often and certainly not much variety, although we raised our own chickens and pigs and canned our own vegetables.

After Dad took that factory job, we still ate a lot of pinto beans, corn bread, milk, and onions, but there was usually some type of meat to go with it. Instead of Sunday being the day we had meat with supper, it became the day we had cake or banana pudding for dessert.

With more people that can afford a variety of food worldwide, there will be pressure on the price of food, not necessarily because there is less of it, but because the form that people want to eat it will change. I think one result of the emergence of the middle class is that the people still stuck in poverty are going to find it even harder to afford basic food, let alone an occasional piece of meat or dessert.