The Global Food Crisis
"They look at me and say, ‘Papa, I’m hungry,’ and I have to look away. It’s humiliating and it makes you angry."
SAINT LOUIS MERISKA, of Haiti, whose children went without food the day
That is the NY Times Quote of the day.
Now read this most important story about the Global Food Crisis.
Everywhere, people are running out of staples and they are rioting in many places.
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We live in a city that spends all its time arguing about whether drug addicts need to have their drugs.
I spent most of my early twenties in countries where people could barely find food.
They worked (in brutal conditions) and scraped up the few cents needed to get food for their families.
There is a crisis happening and much of it is the inanity of the Western world versus the rest of the globe.
Let's buy a $1,000.00 faucet for our bathroom. It's so important.
Government corruption in all contries has brought us to this.
One of the major problems is this rush to produce corn for fuels. The price of grain here in BC has risen so much this winter that a friend of mine who owns a cattle ranch north of Merritt, managed by his son, has had the son cut timber to sell to the Indians so he can pay for the grain to feed the cattle. This is the front cover story on the US issue of TIME magazine, available in Point Roberts.
"Everywhere, people are running out of staples and they are rioting in many places."
While we the developed countries are pouring millions into Olympic torch runs, deliberately wasting food to keep prices up and on and on. Absolutely shameful.
The expansion of 'the grid' needs these sort of on-going crises to keep the pressure on the 'average man in the street' so that they are not paying attention to what else may be going on...
It is not the shortage of food causing the problem, but rather rising prices due primarily to the increased wealth of people in many developing countries such as India and China.
If people have more money, they can pay higher prices, not unlike our own real estate in Vancouver.
Those who don't participate in the new wealth are left to suffer.
Blaming food shortages on corn for ethanol is shortsighted and lacks understanding of the whole food crisis.
Oil AND rice are now both at all time highs!
Step #1 - stop using the US dollar as the benchmark for EVERYTHING. Use the Euro. It makes no sense to pay for everything using the monetary unit of one of the most financially unhealthy economies in the world!
Step #2 - stop using food for fuel...period! Bring back the fricking electric car.
anonamoose---and your expertise is?????
My expertise is common sense, sadly lacking in today's world.-anonamoose
There's enough food and enough money in this world, that no one should go hungry. The greed of individuals and the quest for power gets in the way, filthy rich hoard or waste their wealth, their dogs live better than most people, governments buy weapons and again waste or steal the people's money.
Even when help is sent to starving people someone along the way often intercepts the food or the money and the help doesn't get to the ones that need it.
It's a terribly corrupt world we live in. Everyone wants others to do the right thing, few step up and do it.
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