Saturday, March 29, 2008

Rising Rice Costs

Good thing we decided to burn our food for fuel, huh, readers?

"High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest"

".... Shortages and high prices for all kinds of food have caused tensions and even violence around the world in recent months. Since January, thousands of troops have been deployed in Pakistan to guard trucks carrying wheat and flour. Protests have erupted in Indonesia over soybean shortages, and China has put price controls on cooking oil, grain, meat, milk and eggs.

No wonder they are cutting back on aid to North Korea.

And the shit MSM press couldn't figure that out earlier?


Food riots have erupted in recent months in Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen....

The increase in rice prices internationally promised to put more pressure on prices in the United States, which imports more than 30 percent of the rice Americans consume, according to the United States Rice Producers Association. The price that consumers pay for rice has already increased more than 8 percent over the last year."

You know, it would be nice if the MSM news would focus more on things like this and the CAUSES for such, rather than shovel the shit they do!