I hung around for 28 posts and got nothing but smartass responses, and no answers other than defensive responses that I was dissing our blessed farmers by asking simple questions about our whole agricultural system. I guess as a taxpayer whose dollars go into the billion a year spend on direct federal subsidies to rice growers and a casual buyer of rice products, which I limit buying US rice because of the non organic arsenic levels being higher than most other nations in the world's products, doesn't make me a person who deserves any straight answers other than that.

The questions are really straightforward. Thumper ansered. Sunshine answered. bucky spouted something that doesn't directly relate to anything I asked but that's okay too.

Carry on. Now you're really having a conversation! Now I've been compared to an antivaxxer! This is interesting!

BKb