Koan

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
--For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield
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60 Minutes last Sunday featured two stories which sat in absurd juxtaposition.

The first was the problem of rapidly escalating food prices and shortages, and the resultant starvation plaguing the world.

The second was about farmers in Pennsylvania cashing in on natural gas exploration funds to keep their barely profitable farms afloat.

So here in the U.S., farmers cannot make ends meet while the world starves. How can this be?