"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> Massive price increases in everything!
>
> Latest news is expected increase in price
> of coffee due to coffee rust disease outbreak
> in Central America. Before that, there was
> pork, because of a pig disease outbreak.
> And chocolate due to mainland China buying
> much more. And beef, because U.S. herds are
> at lowest level since (some very long time ago)
> due to the drought last year in Texas. And
> oranges, due to an outbreak of citrus greening
> disease.
>
> If I were the PR guy for, say, carrots, now
> would be the time to send out press releases
> for The Great Carrot Shortage. A massive
> outbreak of Carrot Rot in China! 95% of the
> U.S. carrot crop has already been sold to China!
> Parsnip prices rising in anticipation of
> widespread carrot shortages!

Well, that's not good. We eat a lot of carrots.