If Running Out of Toilet Paper or Pickles Isn't Going to Get You to Costco, Maybe the Media Frenzy Will
The sky is falling! Or something. OK, OK, the increase in food prices is a reality. But if you need to read stories about Americans stockpiling and hoarding foodstuffs such as rice and flour, the Chicago Tribune has one, U.S. News & World Report has one titled "Should Shoppers Hoard Rice?" and the Wall Street Journal has one titled "Load Up the Pantry" (I kid not).
Certainly, some degree of stockpiling was already going on, but the media is fanning the flames by running these much too-easy-to-write stories (send a reporter to Sam's Club! interview a man on the street!). And frankly, it's a little irresponsible. Literally instructing people to stockpile is only going to make matters worse.
Now hurry up and get yourself to Costco!
Previously
'The Daily Show' on the Global Food Crisis
'The Colbert Report' on Global Food Shortages
All These Articles About Rising Food Prices Are Making Me Depressed, Hungry
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5 Comments:
We really don't use flour or eat too much rice but I suddenly have this urge to RUN and buy all I can lay my hands on.
bessfour at 5:27PM on 04/29/08
It's for this reason that me and a couple friends have our own project this week to be more rational about our food purchases.
Details here.
-transiit
transiit at 12:52AM on 04/30/08
Um...is that creamed corn the person in the photo is stockpiling?!
HappyHoarfrost at 9:54AM on 04/30/08
Thank you, President Bush.
RichardCrystal at 1:08PM on 04/30/08
President Bush runs the media?
SB (hoarding wit, common sense, and good taste)(Apparently)
srhcb at 5:38PM on 05/02/08