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To: epicure who wrote (63170)	5/3/2008 11:34:53 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542054

<<< It's not like food chains have not collapsed in the past.>>> These things happen very quickly. Remember the lines waiting for gas back in the 1970's? With the food supply chain stretched to the limit as it is, all it takes is a few somewhat improbable events taking place simultaneously like a drought in the US midwest, flooding in Indonesia, an earthquake in China, and a bad harvest in India. There is not going to be any early warning system. The first sign will be empty shelves at the super markets. Then and only then will some of the free market fundamentalists who believe that a free market place is the only solution to solve the problems of the world admit maybe they were wrong.