Rising food prices

It seems like yesterday, I was learning all about how there’s food shortages in various parts of the world because local crops were displaced by crops grown for cash that weren’t entirely suitable for the area. Food production was low due to low prices, so there wasn’t enough to go around and the little there was wasn’t too affordable since there was a lack of employment. There was a lack of employment because farmers were struggling. Farmers were struggling because food prices were low. Now I’ve talked myself into a complete circle.
In less global concerns, there was local talk about the death of the family farm. Agriculture had become generally unprofitable. One of the things being blamed were low prices, though we looked at the USA to take the blame for that since their subsidies drive down prices in neighbouring markets.
It feels ironic that we now have people lashing out at bio-fuels and trying to blame them for food shortages because they drive the price of food up. There’s something fishy going on here, but I think I’ll just keep going as I usually do.

Minor Stupidity

Every time I see a “Help support MS” charity, I feel like yelling something like, “Boo, down with MS, and its supporters.” Yeah, I know what they mean and what they’re trying to do. Something about the way they word it makes me chuckle though. There’s an ever so subtle difference between supporting MS and supporting people with MS. For some reason though it just doesn’t turn heads the way having a “support violence” campaign instead of a “support victims of violence” would.
Maybe next time I see one of those guys, I should walk up and casually say, “This is most interesting, I’ve been against multiple sclerosis all my life and have always held the view that we would probably be better off without it. Now people seem to be for multiple sclerosis?” It would definitely be a practice your poker face moment.