The noose has been tightening worldwide as reports have been coming out all month in regards to various food related squeezes being generated.
Canada has declared war on hogs (see the Ceres Death ritual articles for more about the significance of the slaughter of pigs during mid April) by paying farmers to cull hundreds of thousands of hogs across the country. Thanks to the U.N. and the global government a food scare, and overall reduction of world food supplies seems to be creeping out of the third world, and directly into our own backyard.
Read Food Crisis: "The greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model""If the government cannot lower the cost of living it simply has to leave. If the police and UN troops want to shoot at us, that's OK, because in the end, if we are not killed by bullets, we'll die of hunger." — A demonstrator in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Then the rice scare...
Limits imposed by some U.S. stores on rice purchases has more to do with " panic" among consumers than any supply shortages in
"There is no shortage of rice," Chookiat said. "People are a bit panicked by getting news of this food crisis all over the world. Everybody starts stocking rice. Instead of buying one or two bags, they buy 10."
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200804290825DOWJONESDJONLINE000444_FORTUNE5.htm