High Prices, Food, Starvation, USA

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We are seeing high prices, speculation on food commodities, biofuels supplanting food crops in commercial fields, starvation and riots in foreign lands, and in the USA, rationing of super size bags of rice in warehouse stores like Cost Co in some US states. * What is going on here? Is this another bubble fixing to burst? Is it something more? There are multiple arguments for both. * The argument that this is runaway dire is that people are scared witless and are hoarding pricey crops. Instability is spreading, Earth itself is showing instability in the news with reports of earthquakes, volcanoes, drought, floods, you name it. * The argument that this is just a speculation bubble state that the foodstuffs that are commodities are going up and other foodstuffs are not. Note potatoes. Orphan food products are not going up as much because they are not bought and sold by speculators. They are traded regionally (between countries, or within countries). Example of orphan crops are Ethiopian tef, finger millet, yam, roots and tubers. Dandelions are actually a crop too, as they end up in high end salads when they are not at the business end of Round Up.