[Poetgal26]

This is part of the reason why me and my other half don’t go out to eat that much anymore

[blam]

Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bites

[acapesket]

This must be the new liberal “MEME”.
Same article published in the Boston Globe today but with a local twist.
This is what Idiot liberals do when..
A.) It’s an election year.
B.) Global Warming Policies “ come HOME TO ROOST”!

[goldstategop]

Restaurants have had to re-tool to survive. The days of cheap eats may soon be a memory. If you want a premium item dish, expect to pay what what it costs to buy and prepare it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[CindyDawg]

There is a steak house around here that has a beautiful view of a cow pasture.

[Marie2]

Oh well, there is supposed to be a global obesity crisis, too. Perhaps one will fix the other.

I am truly sorry for those who are really hungry (and underweight), though.

It seems to me, however, that we should not be reading daily rants about how fat we all are right along with daily rants about how there’s no more food, or what there is is unaffordable.

[ken21]

archer daniels midlands is laughing all the way to the bank with their ethanol tax break.

[donkey slayer]

Ya, and gee it was totally a unforeseeable and all that food prices would go up when food is used as fuel...sheesh. I saw an article that quoted a UCLA professor of ecology say something to the effect of “This Biofuel thing is a lot more complicated than we originally thought” referring to the unintended consequences

[Ciexyz]

Arbys is my restaurant of choice.

[Cobra64]

Instead of burning oil for transportation, we’re burning food (corn, grain, sugar beets).

[Malsua]

Wife and I don’t go out much at all. Once every 3 months perhaps, tops. Not because I can’t afford it, just because I don’t like to eat out so much and that I am a great cook. I should be on Hell’s kitchen. At any rate, I noticed at two local places signs that say “due to cost increases, our prices have risen”

Inflation at 3.3% is total Bullshiznit.

[count-your-change]

Let's see...Local animal shelter is over crowded and the price of meat is going up...Is there a solution to both problems?
I've noticed a distinct fall off in the newspaper ads offering free dogs and cats so I wonder where all that “barbecue” meat at the farmer's market came from?
Just a little creative thinking here folks, your pets are safe...as long as you keep them in the house and quiet.

[mountainbunny]

I was listening to the radio the other day (I never caught the station or the program), and the speaker said that the growing middle class in India and China have as much to go with rising food prices as the ethanol issue or a growing population.

I wish I could name the speaker, but I was preoccupied with driving in the snow.

Anyway, it sounded reasonable at the time, as the man gave statistics that cited the rising average salaries in both places. He equated rising salaries with the residents of those countries consuming more of everything (food, fuel, consumer goods).

Is anyone else familiar with this theory? The speaker said that things would not get a lot better until 2nd- and 3rd-world agriculture techniques caught up to the 1st world.

[patch789]

burning food in the US,
is better than giving the food to people that
hate us, just so they can eat meat.

[gitmo]

Why aren’t the campaigns focusing on who the heck voted for this famine in the first place?