I just read another scary story on the cost of food and a worldwide food shortage in Newsweek.

READ STORY HERE

Once again a big part of the problem is the rapid economic growth of China and their out of control population.

I know this will NEVER happen.  Once you've opened the flood gates you can't get the water back in.  But it seems to me the USA would be in a much better position if it worried about itself and no one else.

All this trade between countries is nonsense.

I wish we'd go back to a time when we used American goods and ate food from strictly American farms.

I'd rather have to pay more for my DVD Players than my bread :sad:

Of course, in order to ever be self-sufficient we'd have to finally get serious about an alternate fuel.