Food Glorious Food

A few disturbing headlines recently relating to what we already know - food prices are going up.  This, as our feckless, er, fearless leaders tell us everything is just fine.

Food prices climb further at the grocery store
We are running out of corn (within the article)
Smucker warns of spike in production costs
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Need I go on? Maybe Glen Beck "grow your own food"  advertisers are not so crazy.

Conspiracy theory? Look at this chart of corn: