I would seriously think about planting a garden if we weren't moving in a few months. If only I could grow macaroni and cheese bushes and bread trees (is that the same as breadfruit?). I can only plan our garden and orchard at the farm on paper and drool as I look through catalogues at all the different varieties of blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and apples.
Our government should be more concerned with global starvation since this man-made food shortage has already caused more anguish and destruction than Al Gore's made up global warming crisis.
Experts told The Times yesterday that prices of rice, wheat and vegetable oil would rise further. They also forecast that high prices and shortages — which have caused riots in developing countries such as Bangladesh and Haiti — were here to stay, and that the days of cheap produce would not return. Food-price inflation has already pushed up a typical family’s weekly shopping bill by 15 per cent in a year.
The price of rice, which has almost tripled in a year, rose 2 per cent on the Chicago Board of Trade yesterday as the United Nations food agency gave warning that millions faced starvation because aid agencies were unable to meet the additional financial burden.
Gordon Brown responded to mounting concerns about the global rise in food prices by signalling that he might scale back Britain’s commitment to biofuels, which critics say has exacerbated the food crisis because land has been given over to grow crops for energy rather than food.
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Wait until UG-99 makes its way to China and then across the Pacific to the US.
The U.S. MUST repeal the energy bill and stop putting food into gas tanks and stop paying farmers to let fields lie empty.
This is only going to get worse before it gets better. There are so many variables making this the 'perfect storm'. Ethanol and gas prices are only part of the puzzle.
Oy. This year the price of matzah had doubled. And it was probably packaged before the most recent increases.
We do need to invest in alternative energy sources for some things, because the price of oil is rising, too, due to supply and demand.
But food for fuel is hardly the way to go. Making biofuels is currently quite energy-intensive--and hydrocarbons are used. The whole thing is a scam.
I think the sensible thing to do is go nuclear for electricity. And sensibly develop our own petroleum resources.
My neighbor bought a Prius yesterday for 10 K--used. So for some of us, that might be an option, too. (we're still a couple of years away from a new car).
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