Food Price, Humanity and Free Markets

Don't feel sorry for yourself when you go to the market for food. Yea, it hurts your pocket book some. You might have to drop back on your NetFlix's subscription from 3 people in your family getting all the movies they want to only one movie per family per trip to the mail box. Tragic. Another American consumer gets hit in their religion, "Consumerism".

For millions of people living on less than one dollar per day, it means starvation. Not an inconvenience, it means death to them and their children. Imagine being powerless to do anything, and worse, not having the energy to care as your child dies because you have no way to bring them food. Hard to imagine in a world that has the big Mac, the Whopper, and French fries on every corner. We are pigs and we don't care that others are dying because they don't have access to our scraps. And, we don't give a damn.

And for the small majority that notices, note, I didn't say cares, what do they do. Should we send food. Yes, we can fill up the ships and send grain, even in a time of "shortage" in America. However, if you give food to a country that is starving, what happens to the farmers that our struggling to grow crops in those countries. Guess what. They go out of business, making the problem worse on the long haul. What has to be done. We have to help the farmers to grow more as people starve to save more in the future. You think it is hard to let your children learn from life. Imagine. Letting millions starve. Help me if I am wrong here, because this solution is painful.

I don't know how to go through life without seeing the sorrow, the sadness in every turn. How can Jehovah Bush say we are going to keep making ethanol from grain as people starve. How can we keep a tariff in place against Brazil that makes ethanol from sugar cane, which would free up corn from America, when people are starving. Simple, we don't give a damn in America except for ourselves. Consumerism is all that matters. We have to have our stuff, our next fix. Who cares that our our polices impact the world. America is the greatest.