This Flood Should Make You Sad

You should be very upset for the Mid-westerners whose businesses, farmland and homes have been devastated by the great flood of the Mississippi river and the broken levee in Illinois. And you should count your lucky stars that you don´t have to depend upon the government to feed you and find shelter for you as you helplessly watch your dreams and all of your steady-focused hard work get washed down this unsympathetic river.

I don´t mean to be should-ing all over you, but this Mississippi mud puddle reaches beyond the devastated lives like 83-year-old Lois Russell from Illinois who had to leave her waterlogged little white farmhouse she´s resided in for 57 years, as reported on CNN.com. It reaches beyond the amber waves of wheat in fields that were once ready to be harvested and the bean crops that will be completely lost. Equally as important, it goes beyond the hundreds and hundreds of acres of corn that is wiped out and meanwhile damaging the land that nurtured it, that will be in no shape for farming even after the water recedes.

Do you know what happens if you go into China and cut down or burn half of it´s bamboo? The wild panda would be completely wiped out. The same would be the scenario with eucalyptus trees and the wild koala bears. So what do you deduct would happen, if a large corn supply was wiped out for a country that heavily relied on corn and corn based products like animal feed, especially those who raise stock for beef, pork and poultry and ethanol products?

If you think the price of food is high now, don´t expect to see any relief anytime soon because this flood does not just effect Mid-west citizens, it will affect us all as the price of corn jumps up and farmers, breeders, manufacturers and merchants pass on these spiked prices to the consumers.

This flood should make you really sad.

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