Not so long ago, gastrophobes,  critics of our industrial food system were saying things like we should have to PAY more for food then we'd respect it more or eat less of it or point to some other moral designed to make us feel guilty about eating at all....

But as food prices continue to rise all over the world and the price of rice -  the staple food for 4 billion of the 6 billion people on the planet - doubling in the past year, the gastrophobes have been blessedly silent.   Maybe they're realizing that ANY food is better than NO food.