“Perishable commodities” comes pretty close to being an oxymoron. Most commodities have a very long shelf life. Investors in food production can control the size of the harvest in order to maximize profits from the sale of limited quantities. I’m not saying they do, I’m saying they can, especially if they grow into large enough conglomerates and consortia that non-corporate producers cannot significantly influence the total output.
In the past 15 years, the wholesale price of butter has gone through four different swings of a nearly 2:1 magnitude.
Where did I say it was? It’s certainly true that food prices are going up and banks have been investing in food (although I think the linkage is in that order and not the other way around).
I just don’t think we quite as close to the edge of the apocalypse as Mr Deacon does. I don’t think we’ll see food riots, mass starvation, the collapse of the government, and the general breakdown of society here in America within the next two years. We’re at least five years away from that point.
And while aquaponics might be a interesting new method of gardening, I really doubt it’ll be the foundation of the new ruling class.
You didn’t. I just offered a challenge to anyone who thought the three points represented an unsustainable scenario that by itself placed the proposition in the realm of absurdity, which is where a great many seem to think it lies. The position may very well be absurd, but not for those reasons.
Having done some hydroponics (that’s a necessary half of the whole aquaponics thing), my conclusion is that it’s freakin’ easier to garden in dirt and “victory gardens” are a much more viable approach. Aquaponics requires various supplies and a lot of human labor, especially if you aren’t using electric power (what, you think think the Evil Overlords manipulating food supplies to the point of killing hundreds of millions are going to give away free power?).
What I find odd is that those housewives often “live” quite far from my town, like the software can’t figure out where I’m at. This is especially inconvenient when the pitch is “Have sex NOW.” If I want sex NOW I don’t want to drive 35 miles to get it.
If, for example, you live in a suburb of Chicago, your ISP’s connection to the internet might be in downtown Chicago, so that’s where the advertiser thinks you are. Or if you live in Albuquerque but work for a company based in Philadelphia, all connections might appear to be coming from Philadelphia.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if one were to deduct the numbers of certain segments of the US population, one would end up with 281 million particular white folks, if you get my drift.
Maybe “281 million” does refer to some real demographic. But on the other hand, maybe it’s just a number that advertisers believe to be attractive (there’s the 1 and the 8 again, in “18 months”). Perhaps it seems Authentic because it’s not rounded to the nearest ten.
Similarly, the “weird trick” language quoted in an earlier post is all over Internet ads aimed at the less-educated. It must work–it must generate more clicks-through than does other phrasing–or it wouldn’t be so ubiquitous.
The whole idea of banks being given money by Evil Obama and then cornering the market on Food, is going to appeal only to people not in the habit of thinking things through. But there is no shortage of that demographic; local Bank of America and Chase and Wells Fargo branch managers had better be prepared for armed hoards seeking the butter and Cheetos and Jimmy Dean sausage packs piled up in their back rooms! :eek:
281 million dead - that’s a lot of mortgage failures and foreclosures. Surely the end of the world - I could have sworn that just happened.
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It seems like similar materials are being used to sell all sorts of different survivalist products ---- this one is hawking a book and some sort of video seminar and he’s blathering away about how unemployment statistics are skewed because they don’t count those freeloading infants and geriatrics so we really have massive unemployment and runaway inflation even though we are being kept in the dark – and if you think you’re safe because you’ve stockpiled your own hydroponically grown food you’re going to be herded up and put into a FEMA concentration camp so you really need these books and tapes…
or something like that, this stuff is really hard to read – I think a lot of is substantially different from the link on the “Evil bankers are hoarding your Twinkies” site Pocket Farm
but they have the same photos of shrinking food packaging.
Apparently there’s a lot of money to be made by predicting the collapse of society.
Sorry this is disjointed but these links make my brain hurt