Rising Food Costs - Maybe It’s A Good Thing?

Should I care that food prices are rising?  Sure, I care because it affects my pocket book, but like gasoline prices, I’m not entirely sympathetic to the masses who bitch daily about it.  I agree that ethanol is a sham and is a dirty industry that is driving up the price of corn.  Corn, corn, corn…glorious friggin corn.  (see my old post on Cornfed America - great video there) 

Here’s a thought or food for thought.  Before WWII, everyone ate organic.  You didn’t have a choice.  If it was fake, the product had the word “immitation” right on the front.  Now, corn is the substitute for everything.  Corn is everywhere, I mean everywhere.  The shiny sheen on your cereal box - yeah that’s from corn.  There are a ton of examples - just watch the King Corn documentary sometime.

Like I said before, I liken the food prices rising to the gasoline “problem.”  If you’re reading this, you probably know that we don’t pay the true cost of food anyway.  The gas problem is that maybe people will start making smart choices about the vehicles they buy if the prices stay high.  So the way I see it with the food industry is this.  If the farm bill doesn’t get corrected and these friggin subsidies keep coming and corn stays a commodity that is over inflated because of that shit fuel we call ethanol, then maybe, just maybe, industry will look at something else to use in your food rather than corn.  Can you imagine a world where the sweetner of choice isn’t corn syrup?  Maybe you sweeten with natural products like pineapple juice or even the white devil - sugar - or even better yet cane sugar.

Sorry for the rant - it just pissed me off this morning.  I’m going back to sleep now.