Food rationing? In the US? WTF?

[conuly]

What is this, what is going on here, somebody explain this to me? (Explain it to me by telling me the appropriate panic index for RIGHT FUCKING NOW, okay? I've had a long day, I don't need it to be any longer.)

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

ROFL, if rice is in short supply, we could always just buy potatoes instead. Potatoes will never be in short supply, because people can grow their own in plastic garbage cans.

[conuly]

What about the potato famine?

I mean, as I understand it, a major contributing cause (not the only cause, by far) was the lack of diversity in Ireland's potatoes, leaving them all vulnerable to the same sickness.

The same lack of diversity is starting to affect all commercial crops, isn't it?