Beware the Impending Carrot Shortage
Can several thousand people buy out the entire supply of a vegetable in one day? Of course not. But that won’t stop them from trying.
More than 60,000 people from an online group have pledged to swarm supermarkets and buy out their supply of carrots in one day in a bizarre mission labeled “impossible” by vegetable growers.
The “On May 15th 2008, everybody needs to go out and panic buy CARROTS” Facebook group was created earlier this month in London and now attracts more than 10,000 members a day — many of them Australian.
“If everyone does this, we can make this global shortage of carrots happen,” writes the group’s creator, Freya Valentine.
More here. Facebook page here. How to manage your carrot crop here.
Read about rising carrot prices in the Ukraine, where “Ukrainian custom officers rather stringently repress contraband supplies of Polish carrot,” here.
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