Tom,

They’ve already done this…

“..And even though the number of potential consumers has diminished, Wall Street and The Bankers will devise a new ‘Investment Product’, that will enable Insiders to make a profit on the starvation of the World’s Poor.”

Making a Killing From Hunger
  GRAIN

  April 2008 Issue

Here’s a short excerpt, you can read the rest at the link.

The situation today is untenable. Look at Haiti. A few decades ago it was self-sufficient in rice. But conditions on foreign loans, particularly a 1994 package from the IMF, forced it to liberalise its market. Cheap rice flooded in from the US, backed by subsidies and corruption, and local production was wiped out.[11] Now prices for rice have risen 50% since last year and the average Haitian can’t afford to eat. So people are taking to the streets or risking their lives to journey by boat to the US. Food protests have also erupted in West Africa, from Mauritania to Burkina Faso. There, too, structural adjustment programmes and food-aid dumping have destroyed the region’s own rice production, leaving people at the mercy of the international market. In Asia, the World Bank constantly assured the Philippines, even as recently as last year, that self-sufficiency in rice was unnecessary and that the world market would take care of its needs.[12] Now the government is in a desperate plight: its domestic supply of subsidised rice is nearly exhausted and it cannot import all it needs because traders’ asking prices are too high.

  Making a killing from hunger

  The truth about who profits and who loses from our global food system has never been more obvious. Take the most basic element of food production: soil. The industrial food system is a chemical-fertiliser junkie. It needs more and more of the stuff just to keep alive, eroding soils and their potential to support crop yields in the process. In the current context of tight food supplies, the small clique of corporations that control the world’s fertiliser market can charge what they want - and that’s exactly what they are doing. Profits at Cargill’s Mosaic Corporation, which controls much of the world’s potash and phosphate supply, more than doubled last year.[13] The world’s largest potash producer, Canada’s Potash Corp, made more than US$1 billion in profit, up more than 70% from 2006.[14] Panicking now about future supplies, governments are becoming desperate to boost their harvests, giving these corporations additional leverage. In April 2008, the joint offshore trading arm for Mosaic and Potash hiked the price of its potash by 40% for buyers from Southeast Asia and by 85% for those from Latin American. India had to pay 130% more than last year, and China 227% more.[15]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050208H.shtml

Why not just eat out, at Chef Mavro’s for example, and let the restaurant worry about the food prices?

Since there is an embargo on Cuban products, i’m not sure that we’ll be seeing Cuban agricultural products in our Costcos anytime soon.

Gee, the food crisis may lead to lots of opportunities.

In Africa, it will resolve itself, as folks eat those who starve to death.

In other parts of the world, food production will go up as starved corpses are used as fertilizer to restore the fecundity of the land.

And the decrease in population of the lower classes in the First World Nations will decrease traffic congestion, shorten the lines at National Parks, and get rid of a lot of those annoying panhandlers.

And even though the number of potential consumers has diminished, Wall Street and The Bankers will devise a new ‘Investment Product’, that will enable Insiders to make a profit on the starvation of the World’s Poor.

I wonder what Bush and the rabid anti-Castro freaks in Miami will rant about now that Raul Castro is in charge in Cuba? That he’s using land ‘stolen’ from the oligarchs to feed the people? That the donkeys that used to be the feature of the nightclubs are now unemployed? That now that illiteracy has dropped to almost zero the people will no longer believe their propaganda?