This has been all over the news lately - but if 4 bags at a time is rationing - we're still fat Americans - fat Asian Americans:
In another sign the global food crisis is hitting North American consumers, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says it is limiting sales of some kinds of rice at many Sam's Club warehouse-style stores in the United States due to "recent supply and demand trends."If we're dumb enough to run out of rice in the world, or make it so hard to get that rice no longer becomes a food staple, but rather an expensive item on the menu - I think we deserve to become extinct.
Sam's Club customers can buy up to four bags of jasmine, basmati and other white long-grain rices, Wal-Mart said yesterday.