As a follow up to my previous blog post and the article about Monsanto here is another article that focuses, as usual, only on large market economies and the rise on a global scale of food prices. Why are we so keen to focus only on national and international economies when the best, and only, solution is to shrink our purview and, as we say in the trade, get local? We have seen countless, seemingly unending, times that when we kowtow to big politics we somehow miss the boat. Where has this path led us? It is all too obvious. And now with all the momentous change in the Mideast and thereabouts, home to a significant amount of the world’s black juice, whither the skyscraper, the John Deere, the automobile and the home mechanical: heat, electric, etc, et al, ad nauseum? The debate is on and the media sucks up to it relentlessly, when the only solution to these age old issues, lies in the backyard with our hands in the soil, our own relentlessness to plant seeds, harvest, save seed and replant the following year. Or better yet, TREES! Yet another NY Times debate…