Food prices to rise due to water shortages?

glad to hear about the urine, been throwing used cat litter [recycled wood variety] in the rocky fried-clay stuff out front [aka 'dirt'] hoping it will become soil some day before i'm 100 . . .

 

idk, I'd rather use a blanket for heat than burn my own shit and have to smell burning shit. Call me crazy I guess

 

it's your shit, you either find a use for it or leave it somewhere for others to deal with

a metaphor for the world's ills, don't you think?

most of us have little choice [laws about shit being rather inflexible] but really, it's a very good thing he's doing

 

its in the stove not on top of it sheesh there is no smell

and yea you would rather leave it on the ground for someone else to walk on ???? or polute the water basins????

 

You don't need to worry about political unrest here, but overseas it is a big issue for governments. America doesn't protest anymore, we're fat and happy. Elsewhere, the price of bread goes up 20 cents and there are riots.

 

Well when you make $10 a day vs $150, grain going up 30% is a big deal.

 

When I get to the point in my life where I'm shitting outside 24/7 I wont be around any other people. And I think most people are smart enough not to shit around a water source. Everything poops, just because the poop came out of a human doesn't make it any more dangerous to the environment (well, if you want to split hairs, it probably does if you eat nothing but mcdonalds, but I don't do that)

Definitely wasn't trying to bitch you out, was trying to understand it. Sorry if my tone came off as otherwise

 

hey sorry if i also came off too strong. You do have to make sure you bury it because rain can wash it quickly into a stream etc..

hugs and love :sunny:

 

you can thank grain increases to Ethanol Fuel.. Mexico's lower class got hit hard when corn prices skyrocketed due to increase prices of corn due to alternate fuel methods... since corn is a staple to any lower class member of mexico.. and well most of the population of mexico

 

america's lower class got hit too

there's some statistic that people in mexico and elsewhere spend a third of their income on food, and that they are hurt by the increases, but that americans spend far less

my household spends close to half of its income on food

 

i have read that the energy inputs to ethanol-from planting to final product-are more than the energy that can be gotten from the ethanol. that comment about corn-does anyone remember when the hispanic population (and others who like corn based foods) got pissed coz the price went up? (scuse my typing...1 handed right now..)

along with the other scams, there is 'electric cars', where electricity comes mostly in the u.s. from coal fired plants...how pollution free is that? lovely. then, a guy i know asked some salesman 'how long do the batteries last?'...'7 years'...'and the cost?'...'bout 4 grand'...'so who's going to loan 4 grand on a 7 year old car to replace the batteries?'. dead quiet...salesman walked off.

solar panels...i think i recall it was $50 grand to set up a system that would deliver 500 kw per month when i sat down with a calculator 5 years ago...hail resistant? batteries last how long? how much lead in them? cost to produce? environmental cost to dispose or recycle?

it's bitterly funny how homo saps tries tangential distraction so we can avoid thinking about the basic problem. duh to us all.

when it was just indians in the u.s., their water got dirty, there was enough room they could move someplace else while their poop decomposed at the last place. now...nowhere to go. gramma's old saying 'water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink'.

 

Something like 35%-40 of US corn production alone goes to ethnol fuel now. 10 years ago it was only 6%. Both most ethanol production and ethanol use is in the US and Brazil, two nations who are also bread baskets in terms of the amount of food they export and put on global markets.

 

that's why walmart and similar corps hold strong.. they rely on the lack of income the lower class has to 1) buy their products because they are so cheap.. and now 2) cash checks because you're too poor or have bad credit because of being poor(ie: medical bills.. cc's..) and have the balls to charge you to do so... big business feeds off of lower income spending...

should i spend a $100 to feed my family of 4 crap food... or should i spend $250-300 and buy excellent and healthy food..

 

not to mention all the rare and more precious metals that have to be extracted from the earth oh and the fact that it is a hazardous waste when it needs to be disposed of!

 

Our supposed "free market" has been corrupted by goverment intervention.

The Ethanol racket is responsible for consuming farm land better left for producing food.

Its a costly racket where Greens, Red State farmers and goverment burecrats conspire to funnel taxpayer money at an inefficent energy model.

In " The Wizzaed of Oz" The Scarecrow (Agricultural Sector) visits the Emrald City (washington) to plead assistance for lack of intelligence (dust bowl) The Wizzard hands him a diploma.

Our moden Emrald City, we get programs & subsidies to corporate farms. They put the small farmer on TV to pimp for big subsidies and big burecracies.

 

State goverments feed off lower income spending also. Tobacco taxes, lotteries and casinos. If Tobacco is just so bad, why not make it illegal and devote those acres to producing food?

When I buy my newspaper I have to wait in line behind lottery ticket purchasers, and get to observe the people who are supporting this racket.

 

That's what amazes me. They have no problem growing all this crap for ethanol, but then they get sanctioned for growing food to eat. Too wrong.

 

The government doesn't grow your food. Farmer and companies do, and landowners are allowed to use their land however they want, even if that involves growing absolutely nothing.