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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (6596)11/8/2007 2:23:23 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 24231
 
On an agriculture related note:

Today there was milk in my grocery store for the first time in about two months. It was powdered. There were two policemen with handguns and bullet proof vests guarding the milk.

I live in Venezuela right now, and there hasn´t been much milk around for about two months. You can still occasionaly get yogurt and chocolate milk (although it is Really expensive), and the cafés seem to get enough to put in their coffee, but whole, skim, and powdered milk has been absent.

The milk industry spokesperson says its because the government fixed the price controls too low. The governments says it`s because world milk, and world cow-feed prices are very high right now. A taxi driver told me that local producers would rather sell the milk across the border in Columbia.

I don`t have any real idea about the causes, but I didn´t like my shopping experience today. The line was HUGE, people were shoving and pushing, lots of people were trying to get around the 2kg limit. The shoppers pretty much ignored the produce-boy´s attempts to keep the check-out line orderly. The police were smart and stuck to keeping an eye on the milk. It was ugly. If world agricultural production can`t keep up to world population (and world demand) I don`t think this will be the only time this happens.

-planning on investigating vegan cuisine and milk substitutes.
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