No, PostCards, I Still Won't Read You Despite This Blatant Pandering To My Interest In Global Rice Prices
postcardsfromyomomma:
Yesterday on the bus I saw this old Asian guy with 2(((25 lb.) bags of rice. You know how many asians shop at costco, too. So many of them come from countries where there have been famines, they are probably really panicking right now……..
You know that the price of wheat and corn has doubled, and rice more than that…a 75% increase. They say its because so much is being used in biofuels. What I find scariest here is that our midwestern underground aquifers (once thought infinite) are already dry and have been…this fact from Diet for a New America (that film is about 20 years old, no?)…from beef production, you remember, growing all that grain to feed beef cattle……