Apparently the world is running out of rice, according to an article via Reuters and a little snippet that I heard and may have half paid attention to yesterday on NPR.
Per the article, Sam's Club/Wal-Mart, purveyors of poor, are limiting the number of bags that one may purchase. The article states that they are "limiting sales of Jasmine, Basmati and long grain white rice 'due to recent supply and demand trends.'" (Please note that healthy and NOT poison brown rice is not affected; at least as can be inferred from the above.)
The article goes on to state that: "Sam's Club, the No. 2 U.S. warehouse club operator, is limiting sales of the 20-pound (9 kg), bulk bags of rice to four bags per customer per visit, and is working with suppliers to ensure the products remain in stock."
International issues aside (which were addressed in the NPR piece), it appears that the stateside problems may be stemming from fatties and poors hoarding. So you can only buy EIGHTY POUNDS OF RICE PER VISIT, what's the big deal? It's not like you needed the carbs anyway.
Side note: Don't think that you can be clever and Google image search "famine" for an accompanying image; it's not cute, it's not clever, and it is, to be candid, quite sobering. After you've done that (because you know that you will) go visit Rice Man to wash away the sad.
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