ghettoperson wrote:
Only communists want to ban speculation trading. Are you a communist David? Are you?
That said, trading based on food raises a few moral questions, but on the whole, no.
In a perfect world you wouldn't need to ban anything. But since food prices are getting higher and higher, and people are starving in a lot of countries, specially in Africa, you don't need to worsen the situation with people speculating with food stocks. The same goes for oil, since every time oil increases its prices, that makes food prices more expensive.