Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Daniel Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

One of the issues that doesn't come up is to compare the Tyson dilemma 
of not being able to pass on costs with the airline situation. What 
happens to chicken prices for the Mogambo's greasy fingers when Tyson 
says "To heck with it." and shuts down a plant to cut costs, then 
another and another? If the demand for corn and beans stays high while 
the economy slumps, then people will be even less able to pay the higher 
costs, and the decision to shut down is usually a timing issue: whether 
the consumer cash can keep up with the costs of production.

Here's an article you might like(and I mentioned the Mogambo in it, 
too...;-) It's a lot of disjointed ideas in one essay, and after 
re-reading it, I could have done a lot better, but it gets to the idea 
that the system is too complex to maintain without cheap energy, and 
investors have to make the choice between quick profits where they 
exacerbate the instabilities or long term political (food) stability and 
smaller but steadier profits..

http://www.minyanville.com/articles/wfmi-oil-Food-mergers-whole-foods/index/a/17319

Dan C.

Belgium,WI