By then we will be growing it locally again and making the bread locally as well.
Joel At 12:05 PM 3/20/08 -0400, you wrote: >Dear Friends--In case you haven't see this on CNN, the network is reporting >on the severe price increases in wheat. The price of wheat has gone up >2-1/2 times over the past year. A commercial-sized bag of flour went from >$37 to $40 over the past couple of months. Everything made from wheat is >going up and up as well. The reasons are 1) more farmers are raising corn >for biofuels and less wheat, so the supply is low and 2) because of the >falling value of the dollar more foreign countries are buying more wheat >from the U.S. 60% of our wheat output goes over seas. We now have less >wheat available since WW II, so we are all paying the price! Life in the >U.S. is becoming like life in a 3rd World country! > >Also from CNN: It takes a big rig trucker $1,000 to fill up his/her >tanks. They are going bankrupt right and left. Truckers are going to >stage a national work stoppage to protest the high price of diesel fuel, >which is near $4/gal. in some parts of the county. > >How is bread going to get to the bread lines during the coming >Depression? Tom > >Tom Shelley >118 E. Court St. >Ithaca, NY 14850 >607 342-0864 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.myspace.com/99319958 >P I thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary > >"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present >without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own >needs." > >The World Commission on Environment and Development, >Gro Harlem Brundtland >Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987 > >MY NOTE: Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as >growth per se is not sustainable. And the term "sustainable" has to mean >"for a very long time" (A. Bartlett). > >"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." Sioux >proverb >_______________________________________________ >RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: >[email protected] >http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins >free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
