Drought in Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, a poor maize harvest in the us, and the loss of most of Pakistan's stored grain in its recent flood disaster have all hit at roughly the same time.

Does the fact that I follow the grain markets on my iPhone imply a loss of soul?

That's only part of the story, of course: meat and milk make up about 15 per cent of calories eaten by humans, so we would need to eat more grain to compensate for their loss.