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warnings about punishing those who hoard are not going out, and people will not be alerted to the dangers of hoarding

or stocking up until they have had the tables turned on them and all their saving put into rice and beans is gone. No

one will tell them that this is to happen and no one will warn them.

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ZetaTalk: Growing Food

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ZetaTalk: Growing Food

Note: written Nov 15, 1999.

Anyone who has a stock of food who does not find themselves at odds with the authorities will still be subject to theft

from gangs or hungry neighbors. In fact, it is as dangerous to stock up and be traced as holding a hoard of food as it is

for a rich man to walk with gold jewelry down a dark path known to harbor thieves in the bushes. It is almost a

welcome sign, saying come take this from me. The word would go out that this person or that person has a stock of

food. Windows will be broken and people will ccome in with bags over their heads so one doesn’t know who is taking

the food stores away, and the person who has a lot of stock will find it has been stolen from them. So, in the end,

hording is not a solution, even for those people who think they are clever and have very carefully hidden their food.

People who are starving and frightened will aggressively attempt to find where the food has been buried.

It is much safer to be able to produce food on a regular basis. Those people who have seed, or who know how to and

are growing algae in water, for instance, will find this cannot be readily taken or carried away. Growing plants, algae

or fish, cannot be carted away as easily as grabbing a bag of rice or cans of food. Such food stuffs will spoil, is hard to

catch, is wet, smelly, and takes time. Those who are frightened or those who would steal and rob are not inclined to

spend the time to harvest. So somebody with algae in a fish tank or gardens in their basement will find that it is not as

worthwhile for a thug or a hungry person to break into the basement to take a tomato as it is to break into a garage

where someone has stored many sacks of flour or potatoes, something that is dry, compact, and easy to carry away.

In addition, the person who is growing their own food regularly will find that even should they be attacked by hungry

people, that they will be able to recover. Even should their hydroponics beds be ripped out and run off with, with

someone grabbing their carrots or tomatoes or cabbage or green peppers or the fish in the tanks, they will have baby

fish on the side to restart their fish tanks and seed and to restart their gardens. The person who has just stored food

cannot recover, and their food is usually gone. Therefore, we recommend the capability of growing food, in many and

varied ways to where the cycle of life is at hand and a temporary disruption of a garden is not a devastation. These

people will not be raided. It will be the hoards that will be raided. Therefore, we have encouraged growing seed and

helping people learn to grow, and helping people understand the simple things about them with which they can feed

themselves, such as insects and the foods found in nature, the minimum that they need to survive. This kind of

knowledge is more valuable than bags of potatoes or barrels of wheat in the garage, because knowledge cannot be

taken from a person, and it is therefore more valuable.

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ZetaTalk: Food Riots

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ZetaTalk: Food Riots

written April 5, 2008

Rice Jumps as Africa Joins Race for Supplies [Apr 4] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ Rice prices rose more than 10 per cent on Friday to a fresh all-time high as African countries joined south-east Asian importers

in the race to head off social unrest by securing supplies from the handful of exporters still selling the

grain in the international market. The rise in prices - 50 per cent in two weeks - threatens upheaval and

has resulted in riots and soldiers overseeing supplies in some emerging countries, where the grain is a

staple food for about 3bn people. India's trade minister, said the government would crack down on

hoarding of essential commodities to keep a lid on food prices. [and from another] City Dwellers Priced

Out of the Market [Apr 4] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ Yeshi Degefu stopped eating meat about a year ago.

Vegetables followed soon and, more recently, chickpeas and lentils. Today, Mrs Yeshi, 50, of Addis Ababa,

queues for subsidised wheat, the only food she can still afford. Mrs Yeshi is caught up in a food crisis that

is hitting the urban population rather than the rural poor, the group that has in the past faced the greatest

threat of hunger. This time, the problem is not a shortage of food but its price. Urban populations are

more likely to protest, triggering riots which in Africa have already hit Burkina Faso and Senegal.

Acute food shortages are in the news, as are the rising prices that accompany shortages. We have predicted