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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (9388)4/27/2008 12:56:24 PM
From: re3  Respond to of 50695
 
<<<Just food for thought...

on the other hand, i thought when a story hit page 1, it was a potential sign of a potential top ?

dunno if there's been talk of goats on page 1, but rice...



To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (9388)4/27/2008 2:09:04 PM
From: Fun-da-Mental#1  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 50695
 
Slider,

Interesting observation about Wall St. insiders snapping up farms in the heartland. I think I know what this is about, and it's not about Armageddon rendering the cities uninhabitable (although plenty of people will tell you that, because it sounds cool). It's part of a larger social trend. It's a combination of:

1) neo-hippie environmentalist back-to-the-land esthetic
2) the quest for affordable housing
3) the feeling that now the party's over, Wall St. and big-city stuff in general is no longer where it's at.

The other day I was at a party and two L.A. hipsters were telling me they were so appalled by a documentary they saw about factory farming that they were going to start shooting deer for meat.

I said they could also save a buck or two that way (no pun intended) and they were very quick to tell me it wasn't about the money.

I'd like to see what they would actually do with a dead deer if they could catch one...

Fun-da-Mental



To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (9388)4/27/2008 7:15:33 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50695
 
Have COW and FEED... does that count ... can't find GOAT :O)



To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (9388)4/28/2008 2:33:27 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50695
 
Hedge funds and investment banks are swapping their Gucci for gumboots as they bet on rising food prices by buying farms.

Billions of dollars are flowing into farmland across the world as investors gorge themselves on vast tracts of Australia, South America and eastern Europe.

“Sell banks, buy cheese,”

We Brazilians will gorge in the money!!!