ozarque has a post about the food thing, both worldwide and over here.

[conuly]

There's links in the entry and links in the comments. People always give her the best links.

What I *want* is to go someplace else, I've said that before. But I'm largely stuck with my family - you can ditch everybody else, but your family has to abandon you* before you can up and leave them. Even the watchword for sibling rivalry around here, two of our cousins, made up (for a brief, very brief) time when one of them had a personal tragedy.

The truth is that the food riots overseas do scare me, even if they're not here and may not be here for a while - if ever. The news that some countries are limiting exports until they can feed their own (while sensible!) scares me - because the people they're not exporting to still need to eat, don't they?

And maybe it'll all die down in a few months or a year. I don't know. I really don't have the knowledge to begin to work this out. What I know is that they may not, and that the news has been increasingly disturbing for the past few years now. First because of what they were never saying, but now (even more disturbingly) because of what they are saying.

So I need to make the best of this all.

*_{In any number of ways, of course.}

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

The news that some countries are limiting exports until they can feed their own (while sensible!) scares me - because the people they're not exporting to still need to eat, don't they?

You're assuming that the grain exports will be used to feed another country's people (and not, for example, to make biofuel).

[conuly]

Yes, yes I am. (Using them to make biofuel also strikes me as a possibly not the best use of these grains.)

[pne.livejournal.com]

The news that some countries are limiting exports until they can feed their own (while sensible!) scares me - because the people they're not exporting to still need to eat, don't they?

You're assuming that the grain exports will be used to feed another country's people (and not, for example, to make biofuel).

[conuly]

Yes, yes I am. (Using them to make biofuel also strikes me as a possibly not the best use of these grains.)