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Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY

It’s getting ugly out there. There are very real and very shocking shortages of rice and wheat, soy and barley, and cold-blooded Wall Street speculators who have moved from oil to food will ensure that the age of cheap food, for hundreds of millions in the West at least, is over, forever. When the price of rice rises 40% in a year, it means a few more dollars at the supermarket for us. For more one billion people who are primarily sustained, kept alive, by rice, the one meal of the day for the family has almost doubled in price. The poor can easily now become the starving, in the West as well as the East.

This video from CNN is positive and useful, in its promotion of a return to filling gardens and plots of land with food, focusing on a small village community in England drawn closer together by the formation of a food grower’s co-op. CNN doesn’t mention the fact that should the day come that delivery trucks stop servicing such a small village, or vegetable, milk and egg prices become outrageous and absurd, the people there will have enough food to feed themselves. That should have been a key focus of the story of course, now a Starve To Profit market becomes exploitable strategy for unregulated, deadly cynical speculators.

Just how terrified your government leaders are about the possibility of widespread food shortages, or basic food prices rising beyond the reach of more than 30-40% of the population, will become clear in the next few months. Maybe we’ll see government sponsored ads telling us to plant food in the backyard or on the balcony, and local government programs to pay for the setting up of more food co-ops. When those houses in the neighbourhood that will never sell get bulldozed, even tree-fee suburban communities get some room to start growing their own food.