Americans eat too much partially because we have access to cheap subsidized food derived mostly from corn. With corn prices skyrocketing, maybe this could be the price adjustment needed to get America off its collective ass and go out and eat real food.

Who else is excited? Remember, those that aren't excited are overweight people with no lives and probably won't additional handouts from the government because they are too lazy to work for themselves. Which side are you on?

The side that doesn't give a fuck

I don't see how higher food prices during a recession that has lasted for years is a good thing.

tk421;1243437 wrote:I don't see how higher food prices during a recession that has lasted for years is a good thing.

Interesting. Do you see how lower food prices bloat the shit out of the American diet with unneeded gluttonous calories causing massive health issues in an aging and theoretically bankrupt country? I don't think that's a good thing either and this is merely the free market and its beauty correcting years of piss poor dieting by the American people.

how is a drought have anything to do with the market? lol. You think because food prices will rise Americans will eat healthier? If anything, they'll eat worse because the fast food places can afford to keep their prices lower.

This is the gayest shit I have ever read on here. Because I took time to read this thread I am now dumber then anyone on this planet earth except sleeper.

tk421;1243449 wrote:how is a drought have anything to do with the market? lol. You think because food prices will rise Americans will eat healthier? If anything, they'll eat worse because the fast food places can afford to keep their prices lower.

And to think he supposedly helps people invest their money. GFOH!

tk421;1243449 wrote:how is a drought have anything to do with the market? lol. You think because food prices will rise Americans will eat healthier? If anything, they'll eat worse because the fast food places can afford to keep their prices lower.

The fast food companies make most of their food from corn. I don't think Americans will eat healthier but they will eat less.

rmolin73;1243457 wrote:And to think he supposedly helps people invest their money. GFOH!

Ignorance is bliss, my caramel colored friend.

sleeper;1243439 wrote:Interesting. Do you see how lower food prices bloat the shit out of the American diet with unneeded gluttonous calories causing massive health issues in an aging and theoretically bankrupt country? I don't think that's a good thing either and this is merely the free market and its beauty correcting years of piss poor dieting by the American people.

The lower food prices aren't to blame for people's diet. They make the choice what to eat and how much of it to eat.

Also, I don't think weather events can really be seen as a market self-correction, as it exists outside the bounds of said market.

But then, I'm relatively convinced this is a trolling thread anyway.

mcburg93;1243455 wrote:This is the gayest shit I have ever read on here. Because I took time to read this thread I am now dumber then anyone on this planet earth except sleeper.

*than

Yes I love seeing the hard working farmers who give their blood, sweat, and tears to feed not only this country but other around the world get kicked in the balls by Mother Nature.

Are you really this fucking stupid or are you just bored with your life?

Low food prices = more food consumed. There's virtual no barrier to prevent overeating, but maybe if food was expensive we'd have less overweight people like Gochiefs costing us billions a year in healthcare. Now if we can just get tobacco to cost 1 million a cigarette, life would be good.

THE4RINGZ;1243489 wrote:Yes I love seeing the hard working farmers who give their blood, sweat, and tears to feed not only this country but other around the world get kicked in the balls by Mother Nature.

Are you really this fucking stupid or are you just bored with your life?

The intelligent farmers that I want growing my food have crop insurance. Trust me, their blood sweat and tears are for happiness only. They get to do less work, enjoy hire prices for their corn, and get compensated via insurance.

sleeper;1243506 wrote:The intelligent farmers that I want growing my food have crop insurance. Trust me, their blood sweat and tears are for happiness only. They get to do less work, enjoy hire prices for their corn, and get compensated via insurance.

...or they go long on corn contracts!

Fatasses gonna fatass

There will be not shortage of food. Americans have not eaten less during any other droughts.

sleeper;1243505 wrote:Low food prices = more food consumed. There's virtual no barrier to prevent overeating ...

Sure there is. It's called self-control and responsibility.

Natural selection will eventually weed their lineages out.

DeadliestWarrior34;1243588 wrote:Fatasses gonna fatass

Basically, it would appear this way, yeah.

Natural selection doesn't work when the poor and stupid(read: fat people) are given endless handouts and access to free medical care. Plus, since they lack any responsibility, they bang other fat, stupid, poor people and produce far more kids who will turn out to be fat, lazy, poor, and stupid.

Isn't America great?

WebFire;1243600 wrote:There will be not shortage of food. Americans have not eaten less during any other droughts.

Who's says there will be shortages? I said prices will increase.

On a serious note the prices wont bug me much. I have half a hog and half a beef in my freezer. Have chicken that we raised and about eight pounds of fish I caught this year. We canned 30 jars of corn 40 jars of beans and 100 jars of tomatoes. We also froze some corn and beans as well. Have apples, several types of berries, and peaches frozen too. Have about 100lbs of potatoes and 50lbs of onions in the basement also. I feel should be pretty well off for about a year. Barring no unforeseen electric outages.

sleeper;1243688 wrote:Natural selection doesn't work when the poor and stupid(read: fat people) are given endless handouts and access to free medical care.

So it would appear then that the problem is not the availability of the cheap food, but the availability of handed-out (not "free") healthcare. Would you not agree?

sleeper;1243688 wrote:Plus, since they lack any responsibility, they bang other fat, stupid, poor people and produce far more kids who will turn out to be fat, lazy, poor, and stupid.

Ah, but there are several factors that will prevent this from being as much a long term problem.

1. They will die earlier, potentially before they have the ability to find their mate.
2. One of the effects of obesity is sterility, if I'm not mistaken, so that will curb their contribution to the gene pool as well.
3. Some obese people will still have standards for what they want in a mate, and would rather be alone with their right hand than with another large person, since current societal norms favor fitness to obesity.
4. Being at the bottom of the dating totem pole, their ability to get laid, even when drunk or desparate, is significantly diminished, and completely at the will of others' preferences.

You know what they say in the mob: Things have a way of working themselves out.

mcburg93;1243702 wrote:On a serious note the prices wont bug me much. I have half a hog and half a beef in my freezer. Have chicken that we raised and about eight pounds of fish I caught this year. We canned 30 jars of corn 40 jars of beans and 100 jars of tomatoes. We also froze some corn and beans as well. Have apples, several types of berries, and peaches frozen too. Have about 100lbs of potatoes and 50lbs of onions in the basement also. I feel should be pretty well off for about a year. Barring no unforeseen electric outages.

Planning for Y2K a little late, aren't you?

O-Trap;1243714 wrote:Planning for Y2K a little late, aren't you?

This has been a norm for us come harvest time every year. Most of the stuff is split with us and my two sisters and their families. Unfortunately this year we got stuck with a little more then usual. Our garden got a little carried away.

Yet sleeper owns a mcdonalds, just another way he's a contradiction. People are too fat and costing us money, yet i'm going to provide them an outlet to be fat so i can make money, then complain that the fat people who buy my product are costing me money, even though I'm part of the problem. You're a hypocrite and an idiot.

cue response - "trolling is an art form and i'm sparking debate whether i agree with this or not...blah blah blah....if you support fat people you're a nazi"

O-Trap;1243713 wrote:So it would appear then that the problem is not the availability of the cheap food, but the availability of handed-out (not "free") healthcare. Would you not agree?

It's a combination of both. Cheap food allows them to eat more but free healthcare allows them to live longer than they should.

Ah, but there are several factors that will prevent this from being as much a long term problem.

1. They will die earlier, potentially before they have the ability to find their mate.
2. One of the effects of obesity is sterility, if I'm not mistaken, so that will curb their contribution to the gene pool as well.
3. Some obese people will still have standards for what they want in a mate, and would rather be alone with their right hand than with another large person, since current societal norms favor fitness to obesity.
4. Being at the bottom of the dating totem pole, their ability to get laid, even when drunk or desparate, is significantly diminished, and completely at the will of others' preferences.

You know what they say in the mob: Things have a way of working themselves out.

A lot of the health problems they have occur after they've already had kids. To your fourth point, sure fat people are on the bottom of the dating scale, but you forget that their are both fat men and fat women. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to put 2 and 2 together and come up with a fat baby.