The Food Crisis

American Thinker ^ | April 29, 2008 | J.R. Dunn

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[RightWhale]

Planetwide food production is twice what is consumed. The problem is distribution, as always.

[NCjim]

Thanks for posting this!

[RushingWater]

I don’t think food has gone up 46%?

From the WSJ 4/25/08:

And some prices are rising even more quickly. The latest data show cereal prices rising by more than 8% a year. Both flour and rice are up more than 13%. Milk, cheese, bananas and even peanut butter: They’re all up by more than 10%. Eggs have rocketed up 30% in a year. Ground beef prices are up 4.8% and chicken by 5.4%.

[Marie2]

As long as we can get McChickens and Double Cheeseburgers for $1, our family will not starve.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

We’re going to hear a lot about how it takes 8 pounds of grain to produce a pound of beef.

We’re not going to hear much about the fact that a pound of beef has at least 4 times as much protein as a pound of grain. Nor will we hear about the pounds of beef produced on range land, which is unsuitable for growing crops.

[Kackikat]

We don’t eat just one food, so add them together and Wallah! You will have at least 40%

[Swiss]

Food prices rose from 1971 to 1975, 1977 to 1980, and 2007 on.

All periods of decrease in the value of the dollar.

[netmilsmom]

I NEVER hear that.
Thanks!

[Chode]

nor can they explain why Bocca-ANYTHING costs more than meat.

weeds flavored to taste LIKE meat shouldn't cost more than meat.

[glorgau]

There is only one sure answer to a food crisis - more subsidies for farmers.

[Chode]

gotta love that RAT arithmetic...

[P.O.E.]

My vote for best article of the month.

[GOPJ]

One of the biggest ingredients in food production is oil and it's byproducts (fertilizers etc )... and oil's gone from $30 to $112...

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Food is a weapon. If one can’t be controlled by using the environment, then by golly, we will control you with food.

[doc1019]

The way the Double Cheeseburger has gotten smaller over the past few years … your family just might starve. ;-)

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Boca isn’t food — it isn’t even what food eats.

[monkeycard]

As long as we can get McChickens and Double Cheeseburgers for $1, our family will not starve.

Perhaps not, but the trans fat will get you.
http://www.mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.index1.html

[Fred Nerks]

Food and Politics

Overpopulation has been dragged from the closet and dusted off one more time.

Exit Global Warming, enter the World Wide Food Crisis!