THE RICE CRISIS

Is there one? I mean how did this come about? O.K. let's put aside the latest disaster to befall Burma (a rice growing country). Did you hear of any rice-crop failures in the past few weeks? months? years? I didn't think so? So what gives?

Something doesn't feel right.

A shortage in corn would be logical because of all the focus in recent years related to bio-fuels, hence diverting food production to fuel production. But rice?

Now if they said that there is a rise in prices due to the fall in the US$ relative to the Asian Currencies across the board, it seems more plausible? mmm....so how do we trust the media to report accurately?