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[Tom <tom AT honeychrome.com>]

On Apr 16, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

Oil sales will go down.  Doesn't matter what our preferences and  
'druthers
are, it's a reality the world has to deal with.  But food sales  
won't.  The food
will be more expensive and of a different type (read a interesting  
article
about how the world is turning away from rice and wheat and to the  
potato), but
the sales of food will go unabated, the only alternative being  
malnutrition.


I'd argue that food sales will also go down, particularly with a lot  
of "value added food products" as people tighten their belts.  Sure,  
its anecdotal, but in just the last year or so I've heard more and  
more people, particularly urban dwellers talk of joining community  
gardens or trying to grow things on building roofs, etc.  If prices  
climb high enough and times get tough enough, this will have an  
impact on food sales.