Hamish Macbeth wrote in message
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"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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except that when a population gets hungry, agriculture gets a
different
priority to that it holds when they are full. The CAP was put into
place
by a generation who had been hungry. It is being taken apart by baby
boomers who cannot even grasp the concept.



Presumably as China becomes more prosperous, 20% already carry a
mobile
phone, they will import more of the world's production of food,
forcing the
price up.


certainly they are importing much more grain, as their standard of
living improves they are drinking more beer and eating more chicken,
both produced (partially) from imported grain.

Another parallel thread outlines that recycling of waste will form a
major
part od food production, also increasing costs. Food as a percentage
of
take home pay is probaly at an historic low, unlikely to continue.

At some point the costs will come home to roost. Eventually you have no
where to turn for cheap labour as they all have aspirations.


--
Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'