No Rain, No Grain: Who makes money on 'food crisis' fears?

The international community's worried this year's low wheat harvest may not meet demand. Drought-stricken Russia, a major global supplier, has decided it won't be exporting any grain until the end of next year's harvest. But as RT's Staci Bivens reports, fears of a global food crisis may be exaggerated by some looking to make a profit...

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[gringodeltoro1]

Grow hemp, it's easier to grow, no pesticide, little water, thousands of uses. Food, building materials, textiles, fuel, paper.... THINK !!

[loveisall1000]

@Oozy9Millimeetah dont think that will help

[m00se321]

Grow Potato's

[maximusTLP]

hmmm, we are now in july 2011, struck by an even bigger drought, what will happen next year......

[catbakkorrel]

Hemp can make 50.000+ different types of products, it doesn't need alot of fertilizers an can actually make the soil better with crop rotation.

This could replace oil, no wonder it's illegal.

[deadreck024]

Hemp is the answer get your self righteous heads out of your ass's and legalize it.

[sirellyn]

Speculation on buying wheat? Good god.  I suppose I can't blame people, some people have been shouting for 3 years now we are in danger of a food crisis and yet never reported on the media. Then a natural disaster or drought happens and those who listened to the good advice bought when cheap now sell higher.

And yet no one points out the media COMPLETELY IGNORED this story 2 years ago.

[gringodeltoro1]

@SuperUnlawful Hemp is legal in Europe (though you may need licenses depending on the country). You can't get high from it (no THC unlike marijuana), but you can make all those products (paper, food, soap, oil, rooftops, furnitures, ropes, plastics, clothes, ethanol, bricks, even car interiors, and car body parts, hemp can replace anything made from petrolium. It's way cheaper, way stronger, way easier to get, and way more sustainable. It also absorb carbon minoxide, that means it cleans the air

[Binerycode]

inb4 HAARP

[SuperUnlawful]

@gringodeltoro1 How do you grow it without going to jail?

[scandawarrior]

Grain and meat will become the next Comodity bubble, like oil did 2 years ago.

[gringodeltoro1]

@roaringwaterbay Yes, the seeds can be turned into oil (cooking oil), you can make hemp cookies, hemp pasta, or just eat it as a powder like supplement. It has a lot of proteins, amino acids, omega 3. It's easily digested, and gives you strength. (some bodybuilders use it).