Eat more rice
Filed Under (Fearmongering) by Don C on 29-04-2008
Rice rationing spreads?
Rationing of rice by retail stores has spread as far as Israel since The New York Sun reported on the phenomenon in Northern California last week.
The Blue Square and Supersol supermarket chains have begun limiting purchases of rice, Israeli newspapers said yesterday. Supersol is restricting each customer to “three bags per type of grain product,” the Jerusalem Post reported. (Link)
Or is it more like after searching the world over The WaPo found one other store in Israel rationing rice.
There are many people in a certain town in Texas who profit from not growing rice. They own land. They on combines. They have rice dryers. They are paid by the US government, i.e., you and me, NOT to grow rice. With additional limits on rice, even more people will build houses on county road 48 with our tax dollars.
Yeah I mentioned the subsidies in one of the previous Rice posts. With a stroke of a pen those could be gone and rice farmers would actually need to grow some rice and maybe there wouldn’t be such a “shortage”. Not that there is really a shortage or anything but the subsidies sure piss me off.