Has any one been paying attention to the food shortage?
No? Ok, well it might be important. I’ve been following this along with the sub-prime crisis. In fact, I’ve been asking the question for years “where is all the money coming from”? Being that I and my husband work in the tech industry and that we got to ride the tail end of the dot com craze, we felt the burn when it crashed. But then we saw all these houses going up, big, expensive houses. And I kept asking the question “How are they paying for these?”.
Well, it looks like the answer was they weren’t. Not really. It was all numbers and paper pushing. Now we’re looking at food shortages. The price of staples such as wheat, rice, and corn have doubled, DOUBLED in the past couple of months alone. Riots are happening.
Which leads me to an article I read in the NY Times this morning.
Food shortages may lead to more acceptance of genetically modified crops. I’m still up in the air on how I feel about this.
Current Mood: 
contemplative
Current Music: stomach rumbling