Shortages or Hot Air?

Nosi

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As the drought tightens it's grip on America in one fist and the recession grips with the other, then storms named Bill kick the USA in the :rule10, the CT's are fearing that Americans are going to be facing food shortages along with local water restrictions on their lawns.

A sugar shortage is coming, and yes, occasional crops see disruptions in supply lines. A few cents added to a bag of table sugar is not my idea of a famine. However, is this sugar famine, as the CT's claim, a start of something nasty, or something to be taken with a grain of salt? Or two? (I love puns)

Am I correct that technology firms likeValcent verticrop high density growth (low water) systems would be all over a problem before it gets the light of the Joe Average's day? Most CT's dismiss talk of technology.

Valcent's first project is a prototype, a green wall feeding critters veggies at a zoo in the UK.
 
Nosi said:
As the drought tightens it's grip on America in one fist and the recession grips with the other, then storms named Bill kick the USA in the :rule10, the CT's are fearing that Americans are going to be facing food shortages along with local water restrictions on their lawns.

A sugar shortage is coming, and yes, occasional crops see disruptions in supply lines. A few cents added to a bag of table sugar is not my idea of a famine. However, is this sugar famine, as the CT's claim, a start of something nasty, or something to be taken with a grain of salt? Or two? (I love puns)

Am I correct that technology firms likeValcent verticrop high density growth (low water) systems would be all over a problem before it gets the light of the Joe Average's day? Most CT's dismiss talk of technology.

Valcent's first project is a prototype, a green wall feeding critters veggies at a zoo in the UK.
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Shucks, American farmers produce so much food that it's a challenge to know what to do with it all. I'm pretty sure CTers will continue to enjoy uninterrupted access to their beloved Skittles and Fritos.
 
shortages happen, famines happen, water restrictions occur all the time...so what. It has happened before, it will happen again, and all it will amount to is a temporary rise in the price of product X.

TAM:)
 
Nosi said:
A sugar shortage is coming...
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The claims of a coming shortage has been put forth by a number of large U.S. food companies, with their solution to the problem being the easing of the quota restrictions the U.S. has on imported sugar.

Domestic U.S sugar producers deny there'll be any shortage.

In other words, this issue appears to be tied in with U.S. agricultural and trade policies.

A couple of news articles on the subject:
Food Firms Warn of Sugar Shortage
U.S. food companies seek easier sugar quotas
 
Corsair 115 said:
The claims of a coming shortage has been put forth by a number of large U.S. food companies, with their solution to the problem being the easing of the quota restrictions the U.S. has on imported sugar.

Domestic U.S sugar producers deny there'll be any shortage.

In other words, this issue appears to be tied in with U.S. agricultural and trade policies.
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Yeah, there was someone on Jon Stewart on some such program that said there is no shortage. It is just US sugar producers want their rights to their profits. Cheaper imported sugar is out there, but the current rule is “BUY USA”. Which maybe isn’t bad. I don’t know. Seems like a union strike kind of thing more than a shortage thing.

With all the complaints from Bill Maher about high fructose corn syrup, and the amount of corn produced in the USA, I can’t see a shortage in sugar (or equivalent) happening ever. It seems to me that the USA could produce more high fructose corn syrup than will ever be needed, and that it can replace sugar. (Not that that is a good thing, but it makes it hard to see where there would be a serious problem of a sugar shortage).
 
Quite a range of food shortages last year on an international scale. Only country where this contributed to the collapse of a goverment was Mauritania.
 
Was Mauritania's food shortage problems a governmental issue or a climate issue?
 
Nosi said:
Was Mauritania's food shortage problems a governmental issue or a climate issue?
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Niether. Remeber there was a general jump in food prices world wide which caused prices in Mauritania to rise. There were also riots in Egypt but entrenched dictatorships tend to be more stable than developing democracies.
 
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