Hippy Bullshit: Drinking Sour Milk Will Not Save Us From The 2018 Food Riots
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Grocery bills are rising through the roof. Food banks are running short of donations. And food shortages are causing sporadic riots in poor countries through the world.
Oh please. The riots are tragic but the rising food prices go far beyond America. And I’m tired of newspapers and bloggers jumping on whatever offers a cheap and easy solution and saying “See, there’s the problem.”
The problem isn’t that we throw out huge amounts of food, our food is the best preserved on the planet. It would be better to throw out less and I support the Second Harvest group in their efforts to serve food that wouldn’t otherwise be used. But no matter how little we use the China and India want more and better food. And one of the biggest causes of the increase of food prices is the increase in gas prices. The machinery to plant it, harvest it and most importantly transport it all run on gas and not good feelings. Making french toast with day old bread does nothing to stop that(but it’s a good idea anyways, that makes the best toast).
photo credit: leadenhall
I have always said that ethanol is a scam, but getting rid of it won’t make rice cheaper. You want cheaper rice? Plant more of it. You want cheaper corn? Plant more of it. You want cheaper beef. Plant more…fuck it you’re just gonna have to pay for beef.
My point is blaming Americans for doing what everyone in an industrialized society does, throwing out bad food, is stupid and pointless and won’t feed a single fucking person. The fact is we produce a certain amount of food on a certain amount of land, that hasn’t changed in years but the population of the world has. We can make more food, we can get rid of some people, or you can invest in my Soylent Green company and we can do both at the same time. But other than that shit’s just going to get more expensive and people and the bottom are going to get squeezed.
So start a vegetable garden or shut the fuck up.
