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People are stealing cows in Wisconsin?

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Apparently this is all true. As some regional and national standards of living continue to rise around the world, milk consumption has surged and milk prices have followed suit, according to this article in the New York Times:

What is unusual, and somewhat confusing, about the milk boom compared with other booming commodities is that milk is not like oil: You cannot stick it in barrels and stockpile it. It goes sour. Even in powder form, the most commoditized version, milk has a shelf life. As a result, only about 7 percent of all the milk produced globally is traded across borders. The rest is consumed in domestic markets, which are protected by geography and just as often by tariffs or subsidies.

One of my favorite memories from my move to Honolulu was my first trip to the Safeway. The price of milk was a shocker. It still is… then again, I don’t drink much milk… except when I go to Starbucks.

USA: Connect the dots when you watch ‘Fahrenheit’: “Once Moore gets past his recounting of the Florida recount, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I agreed with in the movie. For example, he’s very hard on the Saudis, and the unique access to the Bush family enjoyed by their oleaginous ambassador in Washington, Prince Bandar. He’s also very mocking of the absurdities of post-9/11 airport security, alighting on a poor mom forced to drink a beaker of her own breast milk in front of passengers before boarding in order to demonstrate the liquid wasn’t anything incendiary. As we left, the couple ahead of me said they thought Bush would have a hard job responding to these shocking revelations. I didn’t like to point out they could have heard about all this stuff years ago just by reading yours truly. I mentioned the breast-milk incident in a column Aug. 10, 2002. I called for Prince Bandar to be booted back to Saudi Arabia in November 2002, and I’ve been urging the dismantling of the kingdom — Washington’s out-of-control Frankensaud monster — for almost three years now, since within a month of 9/11.”