Everyone Run In A Circle…

 By xaosseed

Sunday April 27thNews, Tales & Amusing Lies Category

Pillar of Conservatism the Wall Street Journal says “I don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food. No, this is not a drill” - should we take heed? Normally I would say ‘probably not, aren’t vast tracts of the EU held artificially fallow by the set-aside policy?’ - except a little digging reveals that in fact, no:

European Union agriculture ministers today approved the Commission’s proposal to set at 0% the obligatory et-aside rate for autumn 2007 and spring 2008 sowings.

I did not know this; set-aside was effectively suspended last year - and when Japan is still having problems getting basic foods for its citizens now, a little red light goes off in my head. I’ve been to Japan, they’re ahead of us on the tech curve, if they can’t weather supply problems, we could be in trouble maybe we should pay attention.

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4 Comments

  1. uber
    28th of April, 2008

    Japan aren’t *that* far ahead, if at all.

    It’s worth remembering that they have complicating factors of eating rice, 11% arable land and some of the highest population densities in the world.

    Nonetheless, it’s time to ditch the CAP and the US Agricultural subsidy and create a chance for the land to be used properly.

  2. dixie
    28th of April, 2008

    How do we fix the avatar issue?

    Please, please, please let the solution not be “go somewhere else and register there in order to make your own blog work.” ;)

  3. Rose of Skye
    28th of April, 2008

    I’ve heard that one of the big wholesale retailers in the US has begun rationing sale of large units of rice (as opposed to normal sized boxes of rice sold in ordinary consumer stores) per family to protect supply. I’m guessing this must be what Wall Street is reacting to.

  4. mdawaffe
    28th of April, 2008

    Looks like you’re using WordPress’ built in support for avatars which, by default, uses Gravatar: http://gravatar.com/

    Your wish has come true, dixie.

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