Hah, well that's one way of looking at it. In theory, though, speculation does play an important role with food, futures establishing scarcity or abundance ove

Hah, well that's one way of looking at it. In theory, though, speculation does play an important role with food, futures establishing scarcity or abundance over a long enough time period so that new crops can be planted, or new land brought into cultivation, to balance things out. Albeit, not sure about in practice.