The Ritzville Adams County Journal - Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887

Sheltering in place doesn't make sense

There's a lot to appreciate about farmers donating potatoes and volunteers helping to distribute them.

But if one is awake, it's also deeply disturbing that farmers will soon "plow under a billion pounds of potatoes."  

Mind you that, this year, billions of people are forecast to starve to death around the world due to weather having caused crop failures globally and unprecedented locust migrations.  

Even in the U.S., the supply of food for restaurants can't be repackaged fast enough to avoid a 50% food shortage for months. 

And too many truckers...