Reply #98: See, that's what creates the downward pressure on food prices...and that's [View All]

what the big agribusinesses want to make impossible (or at least they want to make sure they get their cut of that too, through seed and round-up sales).

Right now, if food prices go up too high, people start their own farms. The price ceiling depends on what the costs of the alternatives are to them. Now, if you can't grow your own food outside of the ADM/ConAgra/Monsanto nexus, then that price ceiling really goes up a lot.

But what really makes that price ceiling go up is that you can't live without eating. So that's the other ceiling big agribusiness is looking for -- how high can they go before people decide to call it a life and starve to death. That ceiling is going to be pretty high.