The New York Sun today ran an article discussing possible food rationing in the U.S.

Since last autumn, in as many as 60 nations “food security” has moved from an issue many never or hardly ever thought about to become the number one issue in life.

Food security involves having and sustaining the supply of proper food sources for entire nations and populations.

The New York Sun article by Josh Gerstein today featured these paragraphs:

"Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks."

"'At a Costco Warehouse in Mountain View, Calif., yesterday, shoppers grew frustrated and occasionally uttered expletives as they searched in vain for the large sacks of rice they usually buy.'"

“'Where’s the rice?' an engineer from Palo Alto, Calif., Yajun Liu, said. 'You should be able to buy something like rice. This is ridiculous.'”

"The bustling store in the heart of Silicon Valley usually sells four or five varieties of rice to a clientele largely of Asian immigrants, but only about half a pallet of Indian-grown Basmati rice was left in stock. A 20-pound bag was selling for $15.99. "

More: http://www.nowpublic.com/world/will-u-s-ra...tions-concerned




So now we're running out of rice and flour... do you guys realize how many countries depend on this resource from us?... Haiti, by the way; has run out of food. There's Haitians running away from Haiti because of starvation hittin alarming rates.

The haitians run to DR and the people in DR run to PR and the people in PR run to Florida.


Oh, no now what are you dominicans going to eat. just playin.

On some serious shit, wow thats crazy though..

Yeh.. since many countries depend on this. This isn't good. And right now there's riots going on in China supposedly because of the food scarce.

I have a feeling some people are going to abuse this topic, and start fighting with each other. hope not.

anyway, wow really? thats expected i guess because China uses alot of rice and shit

Bump!

rice is like 4 dollars more expensive. i hear its because india and china refuse to give us any adn so we're getting it from africa.
tis no good, i eat rice everday!

well that's good. america should grow their own f**king rice. china is on a rice and flour shortage itself and has been that way since last year. prices in hong kong have gone up over 30% in the last month.

Yeah kinda sucks because almost every night I eat rice ><


Uh... America is running out too, we're rationing rice and flour a few states across the U.S..... if you haven't realized what's goin on. We can't even supply Haiti.

america does grow their own rice, but they grow ugly rice. long rice, i think? anywho, any kinda rice from china and india pwns american rice.

I personally think that China should stop all future imports of rice to the US.

but then our economy would like..die.

lol. true! not to mention some of our people. lol. :]
my dad lives on rice, he claims he is never full when we eat out without rice. my family loves it and so do i. rice is life for most asians.

It's gonna happen... with the Bee population expiring and the natural change of weather... crops of all sorts are shortening. People are gonna start having wars for resources. It'll start within the nations themselves, then countries will get into wars with themselves. Vinni Vetti Vecci.

i don't care. it doesn't affect me. china's going to take over as having the leading economy of the world in the next few decades. kicking the US off its rice export list wouldn't hurt them. and by then, the US will just have to go along with whatever china says.

<,< It'll effect you if your primary diet consists of flour and rice... I don't think you see the outcome of this.

And why glorifying China's economy when they have horrible slave labor? If it wasn't for America... China wouldn't be anything, just a reality check... so if America cut it's import/exports with China.. China would go down the drain.

the rice in my area are now $20 per bag. It used to be $12.

I don't care because I'm not from the US. and I will not be living in the US after I graduate from college. Horrible slave labor? US has slave labor too. More like America would go down the drain if they had nothing imported from China. Why? Because no one wants American goods. The amount of US imports are WAY HIGHER than their exports. The US is f**king screwed and everyone knows it.

Yep... horrible slave labor. Our slave labor is just gettin paid minimum wage, regardless of the job. You know our worldly importing/exporting is all connected by a chain... if one link breaks, so will the others.

oh yeah, because using labor from illegal immigrants totally isn't slave labor and that they totally get paid minimum wage. aren't you anti-american anyways? so what's with the whole defense of america now? scared that you won't get any more rice?


the world doesn't need the US and that's what the US will never understand.

I ate rice last night. I'm contributing to the problem.


Anyway, why can't we just import? That should solve the rice problem long enough for us to grow our own.

I'm anti-neo-American yes. I believe we should all live up to our Constitution and religious morals. But that has all changed. Sadly, many illegal immigrants actually make more than minimum wage. While in China, a lot of your people (assuming your Chinese) are working inside of tin/aluminum buildings where heat can rise up to 110 degrees inside, while gettin paid like 15 cents an hour. Above that, many cannot fall in love nor have families. Nor can they leave the country, nor can they have more than a certain amount of money.

It's not so much that I'm scared about rice for the U.S. It's that rice in general is running out... there's supposedly 60 countries facing this problem and America (the super powered nation) has finally hit that point.

And your right... most countries don't need other countries. But the ones that do, need them for certain resources. Unfortunately America exploits every country it has connections with. We give them useless materialistic bullshit materials for a shit load of their resources. We cause countries to turn into Banana Republics, because of their bountiful resources.



Apparently ethanol is also causing this problem. Ethanol by far was the worst thing we could have thought of for energy.

Undoubtedly.

uh, how so?


lol do you even know wtf he's talking about

Uh.. cuz gas prices has not dropped... and the cost of food... especially CORN has went up in price. WTF????

you know the energy returned on energy invested with ethanol is higher than most, if not all, other fuel.

if you have a better idea for fuel, let's hear it.

ethanol is cheap. we waste it everyday in chem class.